A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons. Exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic economy ; and methods of detecting them / by Frederick Accum.

  • Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons. Exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic economy ; and methods of detecting them / by Frederick Accum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The quantities of coculus indicus berries, as well as of black extract, imported into this country for adulterating malt liquors, are enormous. It forms a considerable branch of commerce in the hands of a few brokers : yet, smgular as it may seem, no inquiry appears to have been hitherto made by the officers of the revenue respecting its appli- cation. Many other substances employed _ 201. upon the first count, 2001. upon the third, and 200]. upon the seventh count in the indictment. The King v. Thomas Evans. The charge against this defendant was, that he had in his possession forty« seven barrels of stale unpalatable beer. On the 11th of March, John Wilson, an excise officer, went to the storehouse, and found forty-seven casks containing forty-three barrels and a half of sour unwholesome beer. Several samples of the beer were produced, all of them of a different colour, and filled with sediment. A fine of 301. was ordered to be paid by the defendant.