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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Feltham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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It is stated that the position with regard to the seventyeight
unsatisfactory milk samples is not so bad as the figures,
alone, suggest. Fifty-two were preliminary samples taken from
one farmer and were very slightly deficient in quality. Later
samples proved satisfactory. A prosecution in respect of the
other unsatisfactory samples resulted in fines and costs of
£61 10s. 0d. The unsatisfactory sausages contained undeclared
preservative and an official caution was given.
Fifty-one inspections of shops were made in connection
with the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887-1926, but no infringements
serious enough to warrant proceedings being instituted
were discovered.
The labelling of Food Order, 1953, requires certain prepacked
foods to bear on the label a clear statement of the