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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 46.

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Fruit Sirup.

FREQUENT and alarming cases of poisoning have recently been noticed in Brussels, and on investigation the causes were discovered to be the use of raspberry, currant, and other fruit sirups. The Belgian chemists have analyzed these sirups, and assert that none of them contained a trace of the fruit of which the sirup is named. Many consisted of a solution of glucose, covered with analine red mixed with tartaric or citric acid and a few drops of fruit essences. Fuchsine, the form of analine red used, it is stated, is frequently combined with arsenic.—Ledger.