A TEST FOR HORSEFLESH.
M. Humbert, through the Rnnl de Medicine Veterinaire, tells ns that chemical tests will determine whether a given specimen of meat is from the horse or from the flesh of any other animals usnally used for food ; fifty grammes of meat are boiled for one hour in 200 grammes of water, and then the decoction is set aside to cool. When cool, nitric acid in the proportion of 5 per cent, is added, and into this is dropped.
drop by drop, some of Gram’s iodo-iodmee solution, or in its place a solution of iodized water which has been well iodized by the aid of heat ; if horseflesh is present there will appear a deep violet-red circle. Neither beef, veal, mutton nor pork will fnrnish the same reaction.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XIX, 7 November 1896, Page 25
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131A TEST FOR HORSEFLESH. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XIX, 7 November 1896, Page 25
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