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examined for metallic contamination, but none was discovered.
Conserves.
Five jams of a total of eleven were adulterated. Three
sold as full fruit standard blackcurrant jam contained only
16, 23 and 21 per cent. respectively of blackcurrants in
place of the 30 per cent. required, whilst two samples of
apricot jam contained only 28 and 32 per cent. respectively
of apricots, whereas the standards of the Food Manufacturers'
Federation require in apricot jam of full fruit
standard a minimum of 40 per cent. of the named fruit.
The total of fines and costs recovered in cases of
adulterated jam was £11 1s. 0d.
Eighteen other samples of various descriptions were
genuine.
Confectionery.
Two samples of chocolate sweets described as being
filled with fresh flowing cream " were adulterated. They
were found to be filled not with cream but with a quite
ordinary type of soft sugar confection commonly used in
chocolates. This is misdescription of the grossest type, and,
upon the matter being taken up with the manufacturers,
the advertising showpiece upon which the wording occurred
was withdrawn.
One sample each of glucose pastilles and blackcurrant
pastilles were genuine.
Seven specimens of various types of chocolate cakes were
analysed, and no fewer than four were adulterated. Three
contained no cocoa whatever, and one which was sold as
"chocolate cream buns " had a coating which consisted
merely of an artificial chocolate-coloured sugary material
containing no cocoa and a filling which consisted of a substance
resembling cream in outward appearance, but which
was not cream in fact.
In regard to the proportion of cocoa that should be
present in chocolate confectionery, a standard suggested by
the British Research Association for the Confectionery