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the exception of fruit pulp and juice, being processed for stock
feeding.
The following foods were rejected at the wharves :—
Meat—
Ox liver 290 lbs.
Lambs legs11 „
301 lbs.
Other Foods—
Onions 106,300 lbs.
Apricot pulp 60,530 ,,
Orange Juice 14,970 „
Guava puree 4,893 „
Potatoes 4,645 „
Mincemeat 2,447 „
Cake mixture 550 „
Orange segments 92 „
Meat, canned—various 79¾ „
Condensed milk 63 „
Prunes 57 „
Jelly crystals 27 „
Sweetened fat 17 „
194,670} lbs.
Total Imported Food Rejected 194,971} lbs.
From the above table it can be seen that very little meat was
rejected but that the total food condemned was approximately
three times that for 1950. Onions stored too long on quays and
fruit pulp which had burst its containers were mainly responsible
for the increase.
Caseous Lymphadenitis.—This disease, sometimes called
" pseudo-tuberculosis" occurs mainly in sheep although it is
occasionally found in cattle, rabbits and chickens. It is met
usually in imported sheep carcases and is often the cause of meat
being rejected as unfit for human consumption. It follows, therefore,
that much time and attention is given by the Food Inspectors
to this disease during their inspections at the wharves and cold
storage plants in the Borough.
During the year over 86,000 carcases and bags of boneless
meat were landed and the following summary indicates that the
quantity of meat condemned was negligible :—
Landed
Examined
Rejected
Weight
Mutton and Lamb Carcases ...
73,360
743
4
22 lbs.
Bags of boneless Mutton
8,325
34
Wethers
5.178
44
1
1 lb.