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53
Unsatisfactory sample
No. of
prosecutions
No. of
warnings
to
Producers,
Manufacturers
or
Vendors
No further
action
Total
Milk - 2 - 2
Hot milk - 6 - 6
Butter - 2 - 2
Cream cheese - 1 - 1
Lard (American pure) - - 1 1 +
Beef sausages - 1 - 1
Cooking oil - - 1 1
Tomato juice - 2 - 2
Tomato paste - 1 1 2
Tomato puree - - 1 1
Currants - 6 - 6
Sul tanas - 1 - 1
Dried Apricots - 2 - 2
Crystallized apricots - 1 - 1
Glace apricots 1 - - 1
Processed apricots - 1 - 1
Apples - - 2 2
Pickle - - 1 1
Pickled onions - 1 - 1
Mango chutney - 1 - 1
Malt vinegar - 1 - 1
Ground pepper - 1 - 1
Meringue powder - - 1 1
Lemonade powder - 1 - 1
Orange squash - - 1 1
Table jelly - 1 1 2
Dressed crab - 2 1 3
Yeast protein - 2 - 2
Chocolate covered brazils - - 1 1
Chest and lung mixture - 1 - 1
Nut cheese - 1 - 1
Veal cutlets in cream sauce - 1 - 1
Crude black molasses fudge - 1 - 1
Baby food - - 1 1
TOTALS 1 40 13 ++ 54
+ This result was notified to the Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
++ 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.
Ice Cream
The Food Standards (ice Cream) Order, 1953, specifies a minimum
standard for ice cream of 5% fat, 10% sugar and milk solids other
than fat.
The following table shows the number of samples taken during
1958 for chemical analysis compared with the previous year