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purchased by the Inspector as "milk and water." The
certificate of the Analyst was to the effect that the sample
consisted of:—
Milk deprived of at least 43 per cent.
of its fat 54 per cent.
Added water 46 ,,
and had, therefore, the composition of "skimmed milk" and
water.
A summons was issued against the vendor for having sold
to the prejudice of the purchaser "milk and water" which
was not of the nature, substance and quality demanded, in
that it had the composition of "skimmed milk" and water.
The summons was dismissed by the magistrate, with
£2 2s. costs against the Council, on the ground that, as the
Analyst was unable to state in his evidence that no "milk"
at all was present in the sample, the purchaser was not prejudiced,
as he had purchased it as milk and water; and even
if there were but a spoonful of milk to a bucket of water, the
sample consisted of milk and water.
Cocoa.
Proceedings were taken in respect of a number of samples
of cocoa, which were certified by the Analyst to be adulterated
by the addition of "cocoa shell." In the manufacture of
cocoa, the cocoa bean after being roasted, is crushed and
winnowed, whereby the light shell is removed, which is used
for other purposes, and its presence in what is sold as pure
cocoa, except in a minute proportion, must be looked upon
as an adulteration. Convictions were obtained in the cases
in which the shell amounted to 30 per cent. or over, but in a
case in which the sample was certified to contain 18 per cent.
of shell, the summons was dismissed, the magistrate holding
that its presence to this extent did not constitute adulteration.