Tartaric acid and cream of tartar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1913
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 175
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(13)90917-0

✦ Synopsis

Tartaric Acid and Cream of Tartar. ANON. (Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter, Oct. 14, I912.)

~The United States Treasury

Department has issued the following instructions to collectors of customs at ports where laboratories of the Department of Agriculture are established: " That refined tartaric acid and cream of tartar containing lead in excess of 2o milligrammes per kilogram shall be held as adulterated, under section 7, paragraph 5, under Foods, in that they contain an added poisonous and deleterious ingredient which may render the product injurious to health." American Petroleum. ANON. (Eng., xciv, 243 8, 4o7.)--The petroleum area of the United States is estimated at 8850 square miles. Alabama has 5o square miles;