(1) Sodium benzoate in small doses (under five-tenths of a gram per day) mixed with the food is without deleterious or poisonous action and is not injurious to health. (2) Sodium benzoate in large doses (up to four grams per day) mixed with the food has not been found to exert any deleterious effect on the general health, nor to act as a poison in the general acceptance of the term. In some directions there were slight modifications in certain physiological processes, the exact significance of which modification is not known. (3) The admixture of sodium benzoate with food in small or large doses has not been found to injuriously affect or impair the quality or nutritive value of such food. Still later experiments under the auspices of the German government (1913) showed that in the case of dogs and rabbits relatively large doses of benzoic acid (corresponding to sixty to one hundred grams per day for a man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds) were necessary in order to produce demonstrable effects of any kind. This finding may be considered to confirm in a general way the finding of the Referee Board that four grams per day is harmless. Probably the evidence respecting the effect of benzoic acids and the benzoates when used as food preservatives constitutes as favorable a case as can be made out at the present time for the employment of any chemical substance. Benzoic acid is present in noteworthy amounts in many fruits and berries, especially cranberries, and its presence in these natural foods has never been connected with any injurious action. In point of fact, substances present in many ordinary foodstuffs are converted within the human body first into benzoic acid and then into hippuric acid. Folin's masterly summing up is worth quoting: