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This contained sugar which was not included in the English list.
Some smoked kipper pate, was coloured with Ponceau 3R which is no longer
permitted under the Colouring Hatter in Food Regulations 1966. The labels
of a salmon spread and a sardine spread contravened the Weights and Measures
Regulations, and would contravene the proposed Labelling of Food Regulations,
as it was difficult to read either their weights or the ingredients.
Some white material, taken from a box of pears and submitted for analysis,
consisted of crude calcium carbonate, probably chalk.
The contents of a can of grapefruit possessed a very bitter flavour,
but appeared to be satisfactory in other ways. The bitterness was probably
caused by naringin dissolved in the juice and the fruit being unripe. The
interior of another can of grapefruit showed bad feathering, but the tin
content of the fruit was only 110 parts per million so that no action could
be taken. As the soluble solids were only 17.4 per cent the syrup should
have been described as "medium syrup" and not as "heavy syrup".
A piece of material stated to have been removed from the top of a can
of peaches was found to be a mould growth which had been sterilised, showing
carelessness in the canning factory concerned,
A complaint was received that the fruit was found broken when a can
of apricots was opened. The contents of four other cans were examined and
in each case the fruit was whole, but the interiors of the cans were corroded
and they were probably old stock. A canned fruit salad was found to be
very badly smashed up when opened, and was reported as inferior.
Some tamarinds stated to be bottled in syrup were too acid and insufficiently
sweetened, Tamarinds contain up to 16 per cent of tartaric
acid so that it was not surprising that they tasted acid, but the label
"in syrup" was considered misleading; and a product described as "Pure
concentrated extract pineapple" was found to be purely artificial.
The order cf ingredients given for two samples of mixed dried fruit
were found to be hopelessly incorrect while a prepared dessert did not
declare its ingredients or the name and address of the packer or seller.
An orange juice containing added sugar, appeared to contain only
about 70-75 per cent of pure orange juice and the total solids were only
15.2 per cent, so that little sugar had been added
The label of some curried beans was incorrect as the list of ingredients
included "vegetable ghee", which should be properly described, and
were in the wrong order. Another product described as "While Moong" contained
"vegetable ghee" in its list of ingredients
Three samples of Callaloo, a vegetable rather like spinach, were submitted.
One was satisfactory, another contained 400 parts per million of
tin and the cans were badly corroded, although the product appeared to be
genuine callaloo, but the third consisted of a homegenous mixture of different
vegetable leaves with pieces of meat and could not be described as
callaloo.
A beetle stated to have been found in a can of peas had been cooked,
and had probably been in the peas when canned, a can of red kidney beans
was stated to contain calcium salt, but did not mention which calcium
salt, and several samples of canned yellow beans contained excessive
quantities of lead.
B.25