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Unsatisfactory
sample
No. of
prosecutions
No, of
warnings
to
Producers,
Manufacturers
or
Vendors
No„ of notifications
to
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Fisheries
and Food
No
further
action
Total
Soft Drink - - - 1 1
Golden Raising
Powder -- - 1 1
Milk 6 - 6 - 1 2
Tomato Ketchup - 1 - - 1
Pork Sausages -9 - - 9
Beef Sausages - 3 - - 3
Ground Nutmeg - - - 3 3
Pure Cream Toffees - - - 11
Brisling Fillets
in wine sauce - - - 11
Smoked Sea Salmon - - 1 - 1
Smoked Salmon
(canned) - - - 1+1
Lung Syrup - - - 11
Soup Seasoning - - 11
Treble Cream
Cheese 1 - - - 1
Double Cream
Cheese - 1 - - 1
Single Cream
Cheese - 1 - - 1
Spirit of Sal
Volatile - - - 1 1
Tomato Soup
(canned) - - - 1+ 1
TOTALS; 7 15 7 12++ 41
+ In these cases the food was surrendered by the retailers
and destroyed.
++ In all cases the results of these unsatisfactory samples
were brought to the notice of the producers, manufacturers
or vendors as the case may be.
Chinese Egg Albumen
During the year, information was received from the Ministry
of Health that certain samples of Chinese Egg Albumen (dried egg
white), used in the bakery trade in connection with the manufacture
of meringues and in the icing of cakes? had been found to contain
Salmonella organisms, which are largely responsible for food
poisoning.
An appropriate statement was sent to bakers in the borough
informing them that this commodity could only be used in the
manufacture of products which were subjected to a sterilizing
temperature of 212°F. for ten minutes.
Samples were taken from the stocks of egg albumen and similar
substances held by Kensington bakers, but no organism of the
Salmonella group were isolated in any of the samples.
Sausages
There is at present no meat-content standard for sausages,