[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 77

Bromley 1970

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample	Remarks
Serial No. 3440
(f) Bread Composition: Embedded in the crumb of the loaf were small pieces of wrapping paper.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to baker.
Serial No. 3543
(f) Bread Composition: Contained fragments of newsprint. Six small pieces were isolated, the largest being 1J in. x } in.	Legal proceedings. Baker fined £15 with £8 18s. Od. costs.
Serial No. 3527
(f) Bread Roll Composition: Embedded in the crumb of the roll were parts of the limb of a rodent. Its condition, close adherence to the crumb and the absence of phosphatase enzymes indicated that it had been cooked in the roll.	Legal proceedings. Baker fined £15 with £9 16s. 6d. costs.
Serial No. 3467
(g) Cake Composition: Contained a softwood splinter li in. long which had crumb adherent to it. Sugar had penetrated the outer layers of the wood confirming that the splinter had been baked in the cake.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to baker.
Serial No. 3544
(g) Battenberg Cake Composition: a wood fragment 1 in. long and i in. wide, as well as a number of small splinters, were present. It was a hardwood of the mahogany class and varnish was present on some surfaces, suggesting it derived from a piece of furniture.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to baker.
Serial No. 3482
(h) Sweet Pickle Composition: Contained a piece of wood resembling oak, the surface layers of which had to some extent become permeated by the ingredients of the pickle.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to manufacturer.
Serial No. 3645
(a) Beef Curry Composition: The foreign matter was not a metal spring as was suspected but part of a plant. It had the characters of a leguminous seed pod.	Matter drawn to attention of importers.
Serial No. 3712
(b) Pork Sausages Composition: The meat content was 54 per cent as opposed to the required standard of not less than 65 per cent.	Correspondence with manufacturers. Repeat formal sample—satisfactory.