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PUBLIC HEALTH PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1925-1927.
All samples were examined for any contravention of these Regulations and four were
found to contain proportions of preservatives contrary to the standards. These samples had
been taken formally and the Committee decided to send a cautionary letter to the vendor in
three cases. The fourth was subsequently prosecuted (1939).
REPORT OF THE BOROUGH ANALYST.
I have to thank Mr.J. Kear Colwell, f.i.c., the Borough Analyst, for the following
notes upon the work he has carried out during the year:—
During the year 1938, 800 samples were submitted for analysis in accordance with
the provisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, 408 having been purchased
with the required formalities and 392 obtained informally.
Of this total, 18 (2.25 per cent.) proved to be adulterated, 10 being samples submitted
formally and 8 informally. Last year 19 (2.4 per cent.) were so certified, 10 being submitted
formally and 9 informally.
The adulterated articles consisted of Milk, Meat Paste, Minced Meat, Sardines,
Sausages and Vinegar.
Milk.—Four hundred and twenty-one samples of milk were examined and only
four (0.95 per cent.) fell below the limits required by the Moard of Agriculture Regulations—3.0
per cent. of fat and 8.50 per cent. of non-fatty solids—and were certified
to be adulterated.
Three of the adulterated samples were deficient in fat, the amount in each case being
at least 2.0, 3.0 and 8.9 per cent. respectively, and to the one remaining adulterated
sample, water had been added to the extent of at least 3.0 per cent.
In the table given below, prepared by the Publie Health Department, the results of
the genuine milks are set out month by month and compared with the two previous years
taken from a similar table introduced in the last Annual Report.