FOOD FOR PARIS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 11

FOOD FOR PARIS

MUCH OF BAD QUALITY. Paris, June 11. The tradition of excellence attaching to French catering has received a shattering blow by the report of the Food Control Commission, which exhaustively examined the food supplies of Paris. The commission discovered that the largest proportion of the food and drink in Paris is often definitely of bad quality, reports the Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. Of 2555 milk samples tested, 644 were bad, and only; 947 definitely good. Of 194 samples of butter 74 were bad. Although France prides herself on her wines, only 185 samples were good. Of the other 328 some were more or less artificial concoctions. The proportion of bad spirits was even higher. Altogether the commission found throughout the foodstuffs which it examined an average deficiency of 52 per cent.