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FOOD SUPPLIES.
Unsound Food.
One seizure of unsound food was made during the year.
A quantity of unsound food was voluntarily surrendered
during the year of which a large proportion was salvaged
for use as animal and chicken food or recovery of fats for
trade purposes other than for human consumption.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1928.
800 samples of various foods and drugs were submitted
to the Public Analyst during the year by the Council's
Sampling Officer for analysis; 9 were found to be inferior
and 44 were adulterated. Legal proceedings were taken in
respect of 13 of the adulterated samples, and penalties and
costs amounting to £86 16s. 6d. were imposed.
PHOSPHATASE TEST.
28 samples of milk sold under the special designation
"Pasteurised" were submitted to the phosphatase test
during the year. The results of these examinations showed
that the pasteurising process had been properly carried out
in each case.