CHEMICALS IN FOOD
SIR,—Following the decision of the High Court at Karlsruhe that all Bavarian beer must be brewed only with hops, malt, yeast and water, there was a reasonable hope in this pountry that the Ministry of Food, stimulated by the precept, would simplify, the complex chemical formula: by which most of our food, under it' supervision, is now manu- factured; even t' seemed possible that a campaign might be initiated which, eventually, would eliminate the professots of 'process."
Nothing of ' the kind. On the contrary,. the Ministry has taken a long stride in the opposac direction and allotted £300,000 to endow a college of technology to train scientists in the sinister art of assisting food producers to even better methods of processing their products, and the unfortunate taxpayer, already completely processed financially' can now contemplate further disguises of diet to- wards which, protesting unavailingly, he will be con' ceded the honour of contributing £300,000.
A. PRESTON-TEWART
1 High Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
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