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- 51 -
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
Milk - 4 - 2 6
Tomato Puree - - 2 2
Tomato Juice - - 3 3
Tomato Paste - - 11
Almond Cream - - 11
Cream Cheese - - 11
Cream - 3 - - 3
Cream Toffee - - 2 2
Ice Cream 1 - 1
Sterilized Cream 1 - 1
Crystallised Seeds
Cake Decoration - - 11
Grape Juice - 1 1
Beef Sausages (Canned) - - 11
Sardines (Canned) - - - 11
Sild (Canned) - - 11
Smoked Saithe (Canned) - - 11
Brisling (Canned) - - 11
Brisling Paste 1 - 1
Strawberry Flavouring - - 11
Raspberry Fruit Drink 1 - 1
Cochineal 1 - 1
Tincture of Iodine B.P - - 11
Lung, Throat and Chest
Mixture 1 - 1
Zinc and Castor Oil
~ Ointment 1 - 1
Sweet Pickles 1 - 1
Chicken Soup with Rice - - - 11
Cider Vinegar - - 1+1
Butter 1 - 1
Flower Scented Cachous - - - 11
Condensed Milk
(Sweetened) 1 - 12
Green Herbs Mustard - - - 11
White Gelatine - - 2 2
Port Wine - - 11
TOTALS Nil 17 1 20 ++ 46
+ Case notified to the Customs & Excise Officer.
++ 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.
Sausages
In November, 1955» the Council decided to make representation to
the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee to urge the Ministry
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to introduce legal standards for the meat
content of sausages. The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee
submitted a number of observations (reported in my Annual Report for 1955)
to the Ministry.
It is interesting to note that the Ministry's Food Standards
Committee in their Report dated 30th May, 1956, recommended that