[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough] page 50

Deptford 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]

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Table: TABLE VII Action taken in respect of Food and Drug Irregularities.

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TABLE VII Action taken in respect of Food and Drug Irregularities.

Numbei	Food	Type of Sample	Nature of Irregularity	Action Taken.
1	Confectionery, Flour: Chocolate Cake.	Informal.	Unsound.	Taken up with manufacturers. The cake was stale and a quantity of green mould of a species of Penicillium was found in the interior.
20	Dressed Crab.	Informal.	Contained Iron 70 parts pe million.	Taken up with wholesalers. The product was discoloured, the crab flesh being grey. The discoloration appeared to be due to an abnormally high proportion of iron much of which was in the form of the black sulphide.
60	Currants.	Informal.	Contained six small mouse droppings.	Warned vendor.
9	Pork Sausages.	Informal.	Contained Sulphur dioxide, 170 parts per million.	Sausages should not contain preservative unless its presence is declared. Inconspicuous notice, now placed in prominent position.
117	Zinc and Castor Oil Cream, B.P.	Informal.	Zinc oxide, 37% excessive.	Taken up with vendor. Failed to comply with the standard of the British Pharmacopoeia.
174	Cho colate Swiss Roll.	Informal.	Contained cocoamatter, expressed as dry fat-free cocoa matter, 2%.	Taken up with manufacturer. Chocolate Swiss roll should contain at least 3 per cent, of cocoa matter, expressed as dry fat-free cocoa matter.
203	Tincture of lodine.	Informal.	The sample failed to comply with the standard of the British Pharmacopoeia, the proportion of Potassium lodide being 33% deficient.	Taken up with maufacturer. Taken off sale.
244	Pork Luncheon Meat (Canned).	Informal.	Contained Meat, 82%.	The following statement was printed on the label of the can:—"Minimum Pork content 90%". Taken up w th the Importer.
300	Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine. B.P. 1932.	Informal.	The sample failed to comply with the standard of the British Pharmacopoeia 1932, the proportion of Quinine Sulphate being 20% excessive. and the proportion of Ammonia, 40% deficient.	Taken up with the manufacturers. Taken off sale.
275	Mixed Pickling Spice.	Informal.	Contained 15 small dead black flies.	Taken up with packer. Taken off sale.