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(b) Informal Samples.—These are taken without compliance with the strict formalities of the
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, and serve to show the conditions obtaining without disclosing
to the vendor the fact that samples are being taken for analysis. Particulars of informal samples
collected are as follows :—
Number Number
Nature of sample. taken adulterated.
Bacon 3 —
Barley, pearl 3 —
Brawn 3 —
Butter 15 —
Cakes, fish 1 —
Caviare 1 l
Cheese 6 —
Cherries, glacè 1 —
Cocoa 3 —
Coffee 2 —
Coffee and chicory 1 —
Cream 5 —
Cream, salad 1 —
Cream, tinned 2 —
Currants 3 —
Dripping 6 —
Flour 1
Fruit, dried 1 —
Fruit, tinned 9 1
Honey 3 —
Jam, gooseberry 1 —
Jelly, fruit 4
Lard 3 —
Margarine 15
Milk 122 5
Milk, condensed, machine skimmed 3 —
Milk, dried 2 —
Milk, hot 1
Mincemeat 3
Oil, camphorated 4 2
Oil, olive 3
Paste, fish 6
Paste, meat 3 —
Peas, tinned 3
" Pentacreme" 1 —
Pie, meat 5 —
Powder, lemonade 3 —
Powder, liquorice 6 —
Rissoles 1
Sausages 12 3
Soup, dessicated 1 —
Suet, shredded 3 —
Sweets 7 —
Tart, Cornish, cream 1 —
Tea 3 —
Tomato purèe 2 —
Tomatoes, tinned 2 —
Treacle 1 —
" Trex" 1 —
Vinegar 16 1
Wine, British 1 —
Totals 309 13