Soft Drinks.- | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 12, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 19.

Soft Drinks.—

Many who would not think of taking a drink of liquor will be surprised to read the reports of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, national champion of pure-food laws, concerning soft drinks. He states that “investigations at the United States bureau of chemistry, where we analyzed 100 samples of the sirups used in the manufacture of these drinks, has convinced me that they contain a liberal percentage of caffein and marble dust, both highly injurious to the system. Caffein is a habit-forming drug.” He says further: “The children should be taught to abstain entirely from these soft drinks. No parent should permit his child to drink the concoctions served at the soda fountains. A rigid law should be made and enforced to prevent the sale of these drinks which contain caffein, and almost all of them do contain it. We are working for such a law, because our investigations and analyses have convinced us of its necessity.”