Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your issue of March 22 contained an article entitled "Seeded Oil" (p. 18). That article referred to a trial then pending in the United States District Court in Philadelphia. The article contained a number of serious inaccuracies. Since, however, it constituted a comment on a pending judicial proceeding, we were unwilling to engage in a discussion of the matter until the termination of the trial. The trial is now concluded and we are free to call your attention to the most important of those inaccuracies...
...article described the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive oil...
...fact of the matter is that upon the conclusion of the trial Judge Oliver B. Dickinson dismissed the charges made by the Department ot Agriculture. The court held that the olive oil in question was neither adulterated nor misbranded. The court held the olive oil pure in accordance with all the standards set forth in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States...
...which the Chancellor of the Exchequer "opens" his Budget in the House of Commons, because ever since 1917 Britons, great and small, though ruled for the most part by Conservatives, have paid out staggering income taxes. Outstanding British taxpayers like Lord Leverhulme (soap), Lord Wakefield (oil), Joseph Rank (flour & shipping) and Lord Nuffield (motors) are relieved of as much as 66% of their incomes by the Government, and it was these who faced the 1937 Budget with most fear and trembling...
...infants, such applications are not free from danger, for experience has shown that the oil may be drawn into the lung and give rise to a fatal pneumonia. For this reason most pediatric services now prohibit the use of oily substances in the noses of infants under two years of age.''-Dr. John Levi Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, in a warning to his community last week...