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FOOD SUPPLIES.
Unsound Food.
Two seizures of unsound food were made during the
year:—
Two fowls, weighing 4¾ lbs.
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.
Included in this amount was eight quarters of cow beef
weighing a total of 768 lbs., which, upon inspection, was
found to be tubercular.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938.
800 samples of various food and drugs were submitted
to the Public Analyst during the year by the Council's
Sampling Officer for analysis; 13 were found to be inferior
and 7 were adulterated.. Legal proceedings were taken in
respect of 4 of the adulterated samples, and penalties and
costs amounting to £11 5s. 6d. were imposed.
PHOSPHATASE TEST.
In addition to those examined under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938, twelve samples of milk sold under the special
designations "Pasteurised" and "Tuberculin Tested
Pasteurised," and seven samples of milk taken direct from
milk pasteurising plants in the borough at the time of
pasteurisation, 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.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
Twenty samples of milk were submitted for bacteriological
examination during the year.