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A pork luncheon meat contained only 74 per cent of meat and was
therefore 17.8 per cent deficient in meat. It is understood from
importers that no luncheon meat is coming into this country at the
present time containing more than 75 per cent of meat. Importers and
certain home manufacturers are hoping to standardise pork luncheon meat
on a minumum meat content of 75 per cent of meat, but public analysts
maintain that this should be not less than 90 per cent.
Another sample of luncheon meat contained an added phosphate
emulsifying agent which was not declared, In accordance with the requirements
of the Labelling of Food Order every constituent, including
emulsifying agents must be quoted on the label. The packers eventually
agreed to amend their label to include "Emulsifying Salts".
A sample of Danish braised ox liver was found to contain added
nitrite without any notification on the label, but upon investigation it
was found to be very old stock.
A product sold as Beef and Ox Tongue consisted of a large number of
shreds of beef and ox tongue suspended in jelly. It was considered that
the description should be either "Beef and Ox Tongue in Jelly" or "Beef
and Ox Tongue in Aspic". The manufacturers agreed to include the words
"In Jelly" when new labels were printed.
The name of a fish paste implied that it was prepared from some
particular type of fish, but no particular fish was actually mentioned.
This is a contravention of the Labelling of Food Order, which requires
the paste either to be described by a name which includes that of the
predominating fish used or to give a list of ingredients contained in the
product. After considerable correspondence and discussion of the matter
with the Association of Public Analysts and the Food Manufacturers.
Federation, the manufacturers eventually amended the label.
Canned tuna fillets in oil were also incorrectly labelled as they
were described as "Tuna with Oil and Salt". According to the Labelling
of Food Order, the oil should be defined as "Edible Oil". The
manufacturers agreed to amend the label when ordering further supplies.
The order of disclosure of the ingredients on the labels of a smoked
rainbow trout savoury and a lobster mayonnaise implied that the fat
present was essentially milk or butter fat, whereas with the smoked rainbow
trout not more than three quarters of the fat was butter fat, and with the
lobster mayonnaise only about one third of the fat was butter fat. It
was also noticed that the label on the lobster mayonnaise was incorrect as
the ingredients were given in two parts on separate corners of the label.
The manufacturers are redesigning their labels.
A cream of leek soup powder contained only 11.7 per cent of fat
equivalent to 0.97 per cent of fat on the made up soup.
A product sold as "Vegetable Oil for Cooking and Salad purposes" was
found to consist of rape oil. Rape Oil is used to a large extent in India
as an edible oil, but it is not generally considered suitable for use as a
salad oil here. As it was a single oil and not a constituent of some