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FOOD AND DRUGS ANALYSIS
Food and Drugs Analysis
During the year, 468 samples were submitted under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1955, which came into operation in January, 1956. These samples
were also examined, where appropriate, under the various Orders concerning
Food Standards and Food Labelling made under the Defence
(Sale of Food) Regulations, 1943, and continued in operation by virtue
of Section 136 and the Twelfth Schedule of the new Act. Prepacked drugs
were also examined under the Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941.
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:—
I have pleasure in furnishing the following particulars concerning the
composition of the milk samples submitted for analysis during the year
1957.
Forty-eight samples of milk were submitted during the year, all of which
were taken informally. None was found to be adulterated, but six
samples contained slightly less than the legal minimum limit of 8.5% of
milk-solids other than milk-fat. Five of these samples were submitted in
the January-April period, when the seasonal decline in quality usually
becomes apparent, and as the freezing points were found to be within
normal limits the milks were regarded as "genuine".
"The average composition of the samples analysed is shown in the
following Table, with the averages of previous years for comparison.

As may be seen, the averages show very little variation since the end
of the War, due no doubt to the Metropolitan supply now being composed
almost entirely of bulked milk.