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Cheese 78 tins, 34 lbs.
Bread and biscuits 377 lbs.
Cakes 75
Crumpets 660
Flour and cereals 592 tins and packets, 420 lbs.
Tea ½ lb.
Sugar 16½ lbs.
Jams, syrups and preserves 710 tins and jars
Pickles and sauces 249 tins, jars and bottles
Paste (meat and fish) 313 tins and jars
Patent foods and beverages 96 tins
Sweets 142½ lbs.
Raking powder 1 tin
Legal proceedings were taken in respect of a bun which had been
sold from a local baker's shop and found to contain a cigarette end.
The defendant was fined £5, and £5 5s. 0d. were awarded to the
Council.
Food Poisoning.
During the year five cases of food poisoning were notified. All
were isolated cases and of a minor nature, and call for no special
comment.
PROTECTION OF FOOD SUPPLY.
(B)—SAMPLING OF FOOD AND DRUGS.
The analysis of samples of food and drugs, procured under the
provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, or informally (i.e.; without
following the procedure prescribed by the Act), and the examination of
samples of heat-treated millk and of ice-cream by the prescribed tests,
is carried out by the public Analyst for the Borough at his laboratory
at 325 Kennington Road, London, S.E.I 1.
The total number of formal samples taken under the Act during
1948 was 596, of which 4, or 0.7 per cent., were certified to be adulterated.
In addition, 604 informal samples were procured, of which 2,
or 0.3 per cent., were reported against.