[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough] page 130

Hampstead 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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Table: The following tables show the formal and informal samples found to be adulterated, etc., the nature of adulteration or other irregularity and the action taken :— Formal Samples.

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The following tables show the formal and informal samples found to be adulterated, etc., the nature of adulteration or other irregularity and the action taken :— Formal Samples.

No. of Sample.	Article.	Analyst's Report.	Action taken.
10	Butter	Contained excessive proportion of water.	Cautioned.
102	Butter	Contained excess of water	Cautioned.
149	Bread and Butter	Bread and a mixture of butter and margarine.	Summons dismissed. Probation of Offenders Act. Costs 15s.
502	Bread and Butter	Bread and a mixture of butter and margarine.	Summons dismissed. Probation of Offenders Act. £1 costs.
540	Butter and Margarine mixture	(1) Failure to register margarine factory. (2) Selling margarine in plain wrapper. (3) Section 11 of the Act limit of water is 16 per cent.; Section 6, margarine may not contain more than 10 per cent. butter fat.	Summons (1) Dismissed. Summons (2) Dismissed. Probation of Offenders Act. Costs 10s. 6d. Summons (3) Dismissed. Probation of Offenders Act. Costs £1 Is.
13	Barbados Sugar	Sulphur Dioxide 13 parts, per million; Tin 1.8 grains per pound.	No action.
32	Barbados Sugar	Tin 2 grains per pound	Cautioned.
488	Barbados Sugar	Tin 27 grains per pound	Fined £2. Costs £24.
562	Barbados Sugar	Tin 1.5 grain per pound; Sulphur Dioxide 20 parts per million.	Cautioned. Withdrawn from sale.
335	Milk	Deficient in non fatty solids 3.3 per cent.	Cautioned.
16	Sausages	Contained undeclared preservative Sulphur Dioxide 250 parts per million.	Fined £1. Costs £1 11s. 6d.
86	Sausages	Contained 026 per cent. Boric acid.	Cautioned.
27	Cream Cheese	Not cream cheese. Made from skimmed milk; 1.3 per cent. deficient in fat.	Fined £1. Costs £1 11s. 6d.