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Under this heading, as occasion anises, the Bulletins issued by this Department will contain, as an appendix, such comment as may seem necessary or advisable upon matters relating to the work of the Department in connection with the administration nf the Adulteration Act, the Fertilizers Act, the Feeding Stuffs Act or the Proprietary Medicines Act. It frequently happens that correspondents ask information regarding the above Acts, cf such a nature that the matter in question possesses general interest, and comment upon it would prove acceptable and useful to others than the immediate luestioner; In such cases the reply may find a place in these columns. For con- venience of reference these notes will be numbered in series. A. McGILL, Chief Analyst. 15873— IJ il ml i it LABORATORY INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT OTTAWA, CANADA BULLETIN No. 411 ARSENIC IN BAKING MATERIALS Ottawa, July 29th, 1918. Oeo. W. Taylor, Esq., Asst, Deputy Minister of Inland Revenue. Sir, I beg to hand you a report upon the following classes of food materials, likely to contain phosphate of lime in their composition: Baking Powders 71 samples. Seir-ralsing Flour 30 " Oream of Tartar Substitutes 12 So-called Egg Powders, etc S9 Total 1S2 In a recent report (1916-17) of the Medical OfiScer of the Local Government Board, London, England, Dr. A. W. J. MacFadden draws attention to the fact that in some 50 cases. Acid Calcium Phosphate. i>,s used in Cream of Tartar substitutes, was found to contain excessive amounts of Arsenic, reaching 400 parts per million, and in one instance, 643 parts. On investigation it was found that all the firms producing the contaminated article were already awaro of its character, and many of them had in their possession stocks of contaminated acid phosphate which had been returned to them, in conseiiuence of the activities of the food inspectors. Instead of destroying this material, or employing it in uses where it could do no harm " it was found to be a common practice of manufacturers to dispose of acid phosphate which had turned out on their own analysis, to be considerably contaminated, by mixing it with another lot of the product which was free from, or only sliRhtly contaminated with arsenic." Acid calcium phosphate enters into the composition of most baking powderr; and is largely employed in self-raising flours, pancake flours, cream of tartar substitutes, and other articles which are used as foods. Since sulphuric acid, which always con- tains arsenic is employed in its manufacture, it is to be expected that traces of arsenic will be f f d in acid calcium phosphate; and a tolerance of 5 parts per million uUowad by Order in Council of October, 1912 (Q. 1048). The limit for bftking powdwi i» fixed at 2 perta per million, and although scli-raiaing flourv and egg powders are not specifically mentioned, it is re&ionable to interpret thia limit number as equally apply- ing to them. In my last report upon Baking Powder* (see Bulletin No. 860, of January, 1917) the Arsenic content was not given, and the present report may be regarded as oom- plementary to Bulletin No. 360. it is satisfactory to know, as the result o'' the woric now reported, that rery few sumplcs of the classes uf food materials which n^e usually made with acid pboaphate I if time, have been found to contain more than traces of arsenic. Only 6 samples are reported as yielding more than 1 part per million, and only one (1) sample is found to contain above 5 parts per million. This particular sample (No. 76S69) is found to yield 25 parts per million, and must be refrarded as adulterated. 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