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Caseous Lymphadenitis—This disease, sometimes called
"pseudo-tuberculosis" occurs mainly in sheep although it is
occasionally found in cattle, rabbits and chickens. It is met usually
in imported sheep carcases and is often the cause of meat being
rejected as unfit for human consumption.

Groundnuts—rresence of Afiatoxin—Or the total or 17 samples
taken during the current year, 3 of "peanuts", 6 of "peanut flakes"
and 8 of "groundnuts" only 2, one each of "peanut grit" and
"flaked peanuts", contained afiatoxin of medium toxicity and these
consignments were subsequently exported back to the country of
origin.
Corned Beef—-Following a request from the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, 15 samples of variously coded Corned
Beef cartons were taken on 19th May for bacteriological examination
from a consignment arriving in the Borough from Paraguay.
One coding proved positive for staphylococci, as a result of which
a further request from the Animal Health Division of the Ministry
for detention and additional sampling was met. Twelve more
samples were obtained (including 6 from the coding which
produced evidence of staphylococcal infection) and these were
delivered to the Ministry's Canning Expert at Chessington on 1st
June for investigation.
A meeting between all interested parties and representatives
of the Ministry and the Department of Health and Social Security
was convened at which it was decided that these goods could not
be allowed to be distributed for human consumption. The whole
consignment was accordingly returned to South America.
Rusk and Hops Contamination—Some 360 cartons of rusks and
11 ballots of hops, imported from Belgium, were reported on
30th April to have been contaminated by barium carbonate
powder at the Victoria Deepwater Terminal. Detention notices
were served on 1st May and after examination the rusks were
destroyed. Only the hessian wrappings of the hops were found
to be affected and after being adequately vacuumed these ballots
were released.
Dried Egg Albumen and Other Imported Egg Products—
(Conditional Releases)—Importations of Dried Egg Albumen and
other Egg Products continued during the year with the following
results :—