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Checking up on 1952's crop of food-poisoning cases, the U.S. Public Health Service reported last week that trouble might be found in anything from egg powder to bear meat, but that it usually results from the flouting of two basic rules: 1) food handlers should have clean hands, and 2) there must be no delay in properly storing food. Said Dr. Carl C. Dauer in Public Health Reports: "Food stored promptly in an inexpensive icebox is less likely to spoil than food placed in the most elaborate refrigerator after a few hours' exposure at room temperature...
...powder for infants gave P.H.S. its biggest detective job. The first case of dysentery showed up in the District of Columbia. Then came reports from New York City. Eventually, more than 50 cases in 16 states were proved, all traceable to egg powder from a single manufacturer. Within the month, the disease detectives clinched their case and yanked the whole lot off the market...
...from papaya had little success, for the simple reason that users could not control the reaction. Most of the tenderizers were liquid solutions of papaya extract. Housewives soaked the meats until they tasted as if they had already been "digested"-which they had. But last week meat tenderizers in powder form were one of the fastest selling items in U.S. stores...
Last week the burning issue of AD-X2, an additive powder supposed to prolong the life of storage batteries, came before the Senate Small Business Committee. The testimony had a curiously speculative, unreal and alchemical quality as if this storage battery* had been invented by Alchemist Zozimus of Panopolis and AD-X2 concocted by Cagliostro...
...Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses, and the other you give to people." Ritchie said he didn't think so, but added that seven "secret trace elements" furnished the real kick to his powder, he thought...