Excerpt from Adulteration of Food Products: Report In view of the very general use of baking powder in the household economy and its consequent importance, entering as it does into the daily diet of young and old, the vigorous and enfeebled, of all classes and conditions of society, your committee approached the investiga tion of the subject with a great deal of care, determined, if possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.