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80 FOOD ADULTERATION.
FOOD ADULTERATION.
Mr. Parker, the Inspector for Food and Drugs, retired at the end of March last. The
work under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts was entrusted to Mr. Grivell, the Meat and
Food Inspector.
There was a slight increase in the proportion of adulterated samples last year, 52 out of
a total of 600 (equal to 8.6 per cent.) being reported adulterated. In the years 1905-08 the
proportions were 6.5, 10.2, 9.2 and 2.6 per cent. A list of the samples taken, with numbers
and proportions of those found to be adulterated, is given in Table 50.

* Including 41 taken at Paddington (G.W.R.) Terminus in course of delivery ; 10 adulterated.
Of 301 samples of milk, 41 were taken at the Paddington (G.W.R.) Terminus at the
request of the consignees who had contracts with the farmers sending the milk to London.
Of such samples, 10, or 24.3 per cent, were found to be adulterated, as compared with 32.3
in 1907 ; 30.6 in 1906; and 12.6 in 1905:
Eighty-seven (87) samples were purchased on Sundavs, most of them in the streets,
viz.: 82 milk, 4 butter and 1 margarine. Of the samples of milk 5, and of the butter2, were
found to be adulterated. The sample of margarine was not supplied in a stamped wrapper
as required by the Act. The adulterated samples constituted 8.0 per cent. of the whole
number (87), as compared with 7.5 per cent. of all the samples purchased during the year, but
excluding the railway samples.