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which has been effected in preventing adulteration has been much
more marked than it has been in the case of milk. Vinegar is no
longer, as a rule, adulterated with sulphuric acid, nor mustard with
flour, nor coffee with chicory, nor preserved green peas with copper.
Another year will enable us to judge of the effect of the alterations
which are now being made in the laws affecting the adulteration of
food and drugs. The general tendency of these alterations seems to
be in the direction of relieving the retail dealers of much of the responsibility
that has hitherto rested upon them with reference to the
sale of articles hitherto considered to be adulterated.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
17, Bloomsbury Square, T. REDWOOD.
22nd June, 1875.