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Milk (Special Designations) Act
Twenty-three samples were submitted.
Foreign Bodies in Food
Several instances were found of foreign bodies in food. In the main,
insufficient evidence was available to ensure successful prosecution and
the makers of the food in question were warned.
FOOD AND DRUGS ANALYSIS
Food and Drugs Analysis
During the year, 502 samples were submitted for analysis under the
Food and Drugs Act, 1938, by your Sampling Officers. These samples
were also examined wherever applicable under the Defence (Sale of
Food) Regulations, 1943, the Food Standards Orders, 1944-51, and the
Labelling of Food Orders, 1946-51.
Of the total number, 79 were taken formally, in accordance with the
procedure prescribed under the Food and Drugs Act, the remaining 423
being undivided, or informal samples.
The Public Analyst, Dr. H. Amphlett Williams, Ph.D.(Lond.),
A.C.G.F.C., F.R.I.C., has submitted the following report on milk
sampling:—
"107 samples of milk were submitted for analysis during the year, of
which 78 were understood to have been taken on Sundays and 29 on
week-days. One sample was reported as "adulterated," giving a
percentage "adulteration" of 0.9.
The average composition of the samples is shown in the following
Table, with the averages for the five preceding years for comparison:

The average percentage of solids-not-fat in the 30 samples analysed
during the three months, February, March and April, viz. 8.56%, is
again low compared with the average found during the rest of the year.
The figure shows an improvement, however, over that found in the
corresponding period in 1951, when the average fell to 8.47%, i.e. below
the legal minimum standard. It is to be hoped that with improvements
in the supply of winter feeding stuffs this fall in quality during the late
winter months which has been experienced since the beginning of the
War will tend to disappear. The average composition for the whole year