[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 73

Bromley 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample	Remarks
Serial No. 4312
(f) Cream Composition: Contained a female house fly of the species Musca Domestica which had been heated.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to manufacturer.
Serial No. 4245
(g) Apricot Fruit Filling Composition: The lacquer of the can had deteriorated over small areas and at one point this had allowed the fruit acids to penetrate the can, allowing access of mould spores and hence dense mould skin found by the complainant.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to canner.
Serial No. 4342
(h) Canned Peas Composition: Contained the pupa of a butterfly which had been heated.	Matter investigated. Warning letter to canners.
Serial No. 4327
(j) Flour Composition: The foreign object associated with the flour was a fish's anal fins adherent to which were fragments of flour.	Matter investigated. Source of foreign matter not precisely ascertained.
Serial No. 4286
(j) Jowan Flour Composition: This description would not be generally understood and it not an "appropriate designation" and therefore not in accordance with the Labelling of Food Order. It had the microscopical appearance of a mixture of farinaceous substances and, if prepacked, would need a declared list of ingredients.	Investigation in progress.
Serial No. 4310
(k) Bread Composition: Associated with the bread was a cigarette end but difficulty was encountered in establishing its original location in the loaf.	Matter investigated. Source of foreign material not precisely ascertained.
Serial No. 4361
(k) Bread Composition: Contained 15 small fragments of soda glass which could have originated from an electric light bulb.	Matter investigated. Source of foreign material not precisely ascertained.