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Adulteration of food
The number of samples taken during the year under the Food
and Drugs Act was 763, of which 2 were formal samples and 761
informal. After examination the public analyst reported that 1 of the
formal samples and 6 of the informal samples were adulterated or
below standard. The percentage of adulteration amounted to 50 in the
case of the formal samples and 0.78 in the informal samples, whilst it
was 0.91 of all the samples submitted compared with 1.10 percent in
the previous year.