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malt vinegar. The claim was substantiated by the results
of analysis in one case, but in the other the vinegar portion
was found not to have the characters of malt vinegar and
it was therefore certified to be adulterated.
One of the mustards was found to contain a small proportion
of starch and turmeric, but no exception could be
taken to this as it was sold as a mixed article. The other
contained a small amount of turmeric and was merely
reported inferior as it is not usual to regard the colouring
of mustard with turmeric as adulteration.
All the table vinegars were reported adulterated as they
were found to consist of artificial vinegar. In three of
them the amount of acetic acid was respectively 46, 26.5
and 4 per cent. deficient; these were therefore artificial
vinegar adulterated with water. It is satisfactory to record
that the Court upheld your Analyst's opinion that table
vinegar should consist of a superior article, such as malt
vinegar, and not of artificial vinegar, which is merely
acetic acid diluted with water and coloured with caramel.
Pines totalling £10 2s. 6d. were imposed.
Sugar, Sweets and Jellies.
Of six samples of sugar two were found to be adulterated,
one with 2 per cent, of starch and the other with 1.14 per
cent, of rancid fat; this last also contained a few dead flies.
It was afterwards learned that the presence of the starch
was notified on the label of the original container and that
the contamination with rancid fat was to be accounted for
by the vendor having kept the sugar in packets in a tin
alongside packets of ground almonds. Three were brown
sugar of the Barbados type and were submitted in view of
the fact that elsewhere such sugar had been found to
contain appreciable quantities of sand. It appears, however.
that the cases where sand was discovered were isolated
ones and the trouble is said to have been due to malice on