CANNED FOODS.
VIEWS OF AN EXPERT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian aJid N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. December 9. Now that the question of the healthfulness of canned foods and the use of preservatives in iood is again attracting public attention some remarks in that connection by Dr YYilliam Savage, Medical Officer of Health for the County of Somerset and a recognised authority on food matters, are worth quoting. In his book just published. “ Canned Foods in their Relation to Health.” he says: ‘‘Compared with fresh foods, and the very haphazard. inadequate* and neglected control which they receive, canned foods are undoubtedly safe. Experience and direct study alike show that the danger from tin poisoning is negligible. Canned foods take their share, but not an undue share, as vehicles of infection in. relation to food poisoning outbreaks. Special liability to caues botulism poisoning is serious on account of the fatality when it does occur, but it is insignifi cant in its incidence. No one who has studied the subject can doubt the very great value of this method of preservation to the community and the dangers from this cause are not great, and are at least as easily controllable as these from unprepared foods.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17219, 10 December 1923, Page 11
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