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Of the 369 samples of milk, including those sold as skimmed
and as separated milk, 42, or 11.4 per cent., were certified to be
adulterated, but in 20 the deficiency in fat, or in solids other
than fat, was less than 5 per cent., and in these cases, excepting
in one, where the vendor had been previously convicted on
several occasions for selling adulterated milk, proceedings were
not taken against the vendors, but cautionary letters were
written to them.
A large amount of fraud in connection with the sale of butter
continues to be practised in Fulham, and of 421 samples purchased
as butter no less than 8(3 or over 20 per cent. were found
to be margarine.
The tripe, sausages, kidneys, tinned prawns and brawn reported
as adulterated all contained boric acid. As the amount
of this drug present did not exceed 0.25 per cent. (17½ grains to
the pound), except in one sample of tripe, which contained 20
grains to the pound, the Public Health Committee, in view of
the unsatisfactory condition of the law with regard to the use of
preservatives in food, did not take any further steps in the
matter beyond informing the vendors that they were of opinion
that whenever any drug is added to food the purchaser should be
notified of its presence.