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The Laboratory,
11, Billiter Square,
London, E.C.3.
January, 1933.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit a short summary of the analytical work carried
out by me as your Borough Analyst during the year 1932. Altogether
504 samples have been submitted under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act, and in addition a few of the samples have been examined
bacteriologically and in other ways. The following list shows the
principal items:—
Milks 131
Butters 55
Margarine 48
Cheese 23
Lard 25
Tea, coffee, cocoa 33
Cream 18
Dripping 8
Spirits 15
Vinegar 9
Condiments and spices 19
Flour, bread and cereals 11
Sugar, jam and preserves 27
Meat, meat extract, sausage meat 27
Fish and fish pastes 9
Non-alcoholic beverages 5
Drugs .and pharmaceutical preparations 19
and there was a variety of others.
There have been no new regulations made under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Act during the year, but an event of importance was the
issue of the new British Pharmacopoeia, which, amongst many improvements,
provides better standards for quite a large number of
drugs or other pharmaceutical products coming within the scope of the
Food and Drugs Act, including quantitative standards for certain of