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opinion wrongly describes the article) we have in this
instance added a small percentage of honey which,
while not affecting its nature, relieves it of the stigma
of being sold under the definition artificial."
In this instance it will be noticed that the first paragraph
declares the ingredients to be only milk and butter,
whereas the second paragraph contradicts this by disclosing
the addition of honey.
2. "Is pure fresh Grade A (II) dairy milk
enriched with a highly refined and very digestible fat.
High vitamin content."
Butter, Margarine, Lard.
Thirty-seven samples of butter, six of margarine and
eight of lard were examined, and all of these proved to be
of genuine composition in regaxd to the fat and to contain
no excess of water and no preservatives.
Cheese.
Eight specimens of cheese, all of the tin-foil wrapped
kind, were submitted for analysis during the year and were
genuine. No metallic contamination could be detected,
a satisfactory state of affairs in view of the two cases of
cheese found last year containing respectively 14 grains
and 4.9 grains of tin per pound, that is, seven times the
usually accepted limit in the one case and nearly two and
a half times in the other.
Meat and Fish Preparations.
Of the forty-eight meat and fish preparations examined
this year only one, a sample of sardines in tomato, was
adversely reported upon. This contained 4.5 grains of
tin per pound, an amount 2.5 grains per pound in excess
of the limit.