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agreed to amend the label to read "Made from a Blue Cheese base".
Samples of Cheese Spread and Buttered Cheese Spread were
examined, and two of the Buttered Cheese Spreads were reported as
inferior because they contained respectively 28.7 per cent and
29.3 per cent of fat, equivalent to 19 per cent and 19.6 per
cent of fat in the original cheese. The label claimed 15 per cent
of added butter, whereas the original cheese spread which was supposed
to be the basis of the final product contained 22.3 per cent of milk
fat. The manufacturers decided to increase the percentage of butter
added to the original cheese.
Gherkins and Onions in Vinegar wereexamined and found to contain
3.6 per cent of added salt not declared as an ingredient, and Pickled
Olives were described only as "Pickled Green Olives", without any
declaration of ingredients. The manufacturers agreed to amend the
labels.
Some canned Braised Pork Kidneys were satisfactory, but there
was an interesting error in the disclosure of ingredients on the
label, which read "Pork, Kidneys, Flour, Salt, Spices". The
ingredients were "Pork Kidneys" etc., omitting the comma after the
word "Pork".
A soup sold as "Shark's Fin Soup" was stated to be prepared from
"chicken, gelatine, fishj flavoured with soy extract, yeast extract,
onions, carrots, spices, herbs, monosodium glutamate, garnished with
Shark's Fin and parsley". The chief constituent was gelatine. It
is difficult to believe that a garnish can be sufficient to give its
name to the soup, and if the label complied with the Labelling of
Food Order, it is seen that Shark's Fin was the ingredient in about
the lowest quantity present. The Manufacturers stated that the soup
was made from an authentic Chinese Recipe, but they did not quote the
authority for the recipe, or the recipe itself, nor would it appear to
comply with two recipes taken from reputable Chinese Cookery books in
the possession of your analyst.
Wads formed on the surface of a sample of wine vinegar consisted
of zoogloeal masses of bacteria. The cork of the bottle leaked
slightly enabling air to gain access to the vinegar with the result
that bacteria in the vinegar continued to develop and form what is
known as "Mother of Vinegar".
A Beef Steak with Gravy contained only 62 per cent of total meat
and was therefore 17 per cent deficient in meat. Beef Steak with
Gravy must in your analyst's opinion contain not less than 75 per cent
of meat.
Two samples of Veal cutlets consisted of minced meat, with cereal
filler and spices. A veal cutlet is a thin slice of veal meat, though
this slice may be obtained from various parts of the carcase, and it
was suggested that these samples should have been sold by a description
such as "Veal Croquettes". The manufacturers agreed to call them
"Continental Rissoles".