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Whilst there is still no legal standard for the composition of
ice-cream, the arrangement between the Ministry of Food and the
traders whereby the trade agreed to provide not less than 2.5 per cent.
fat in ice-cream continued throughout the year.
Number of samples submitted to Public
Analyst 38
Number of samples below 2.5 per cent, fat Nil
The fat content ranged from 3.3 per cent, to 17.5 per cent. fat,
the average being approximately 7 per cent.

Many of the samples returned as poor and unsatisfactory were
repeated samples from a manufacturer. For a time the cause was
inexplicable, but the trouble was eventually traced and overcome
satisfactorily.
Total number of visits to Ice-Cream premises 172
Meat Inspection.
Meat inspection continued to be carried out in the Borough
including the area in the vicinity of the Smithfield Meat Market.
Regular inspections were made of meat and offal consigned to
the various wholesale butchers and offal shops. Inspections were
also made of the Public Cold Air Stores, bacon factories, wholesale
bacon and provision warehouses.
The increased amount of meat and other foodstuffs condemned
during the year was due to the fact that larger quantities of supplies
arrived at the market, and to the re-opening of many food premises
which were closed during the war.
A special examination of 25,462 carcases of frozen Argentine
mutton was carried out by the Meat Inspector for caseous lymphadenitis
and of this number 7.9 per cent, were affected with the