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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.—Number and Description
of Samples purchased for Analysis
under the above Acts during the Year 1903.
Description of
Samples.
Number of
Samples
Purchased.
Number
Genuine.
Number
Adulterated.
Remarks.
Milk
81
78
3
1 cautioned. 1 fined
£5, and 22s. Costs.
1 withdrawn.
Butter
76
69
7
Fines, £24 5s. 0d.;
Costs, £7 14s. 6d.
Coffee
25
20
5
Fines, £9 10s. 0d.;
Costa, £6 11s. 0d.
Mustard
1
1
...
Pepper
9
9
...
Margarine
2
2
...
Separated Milk
1
1
...
Lard
29
28
1
Fines, £2 ; Costs, 22s.
Whisky
5
5
...
Gin
5
5
...
Demerara Sugar
18
8
10
3 cautioned.
Fines, £9 10s. 0d.;
Coats, £6 8s. 6d.
Camphorated Oil
1
1
...
Vinegar
1
1
...
Cheese
6
6
...
Cocoa
7
6
1
15s. Costs.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre
3
3
...
Sweets
5
5
...
Baking Powder
2
2
...
Jam
3
3
...
Glycerine
4
4
...
Olive Oil
1
1
...
Boracic Acid Ointment
5
5
...
Sweet Oil
4
3
1
Fines, 10s.; Costs,
15s.
Belladonna Liniment
1
1
...
Tea
1
1
...
Golden Syrup
2
2
...
Sulphate of Magnesia
1
1
...
Liquor Plumbi Subacet
1
1
...
Pepsin
1
1
...
Æther Sulph. Rect.
1
1
...
Cod Liver Oil
2
2
...
Cocoa Essence
1
1
...
Lump Sugar
1
1
...
Fines, £50 15s. 0d.
Total
306
278
28
Costs, £24 8s. 0d.