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22
Milk, cream, tinned milk 26
Butter, cheese, cooking fat 45
Ice cream, ice cream powder 22
Flavourings, sauces, pickles 58
Fruit and vegetables, tinned and dried 43
Meat products 109
Fish, tinned 28
Wines, spirits, beer 4l
Beverages, non-alcoholic 25
Flour, flour products, cakes, puddings 12
Spreads, pastes 19
Jam, honey 10
Medicines 11
Sweets, confectionery 14
Jellies, blancmanges 12
Mincemeat, Xmas puddings 8
Rice products 5
Miscellaneous 13
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All the samples of milk proved satisfactory, the
average milk fat content being 3.7 per cent. The legal minimum
is 3 per cent.
Twenty-three samples of pork sausages were taken, the
average meat content being 67.3 per cento; the lowest meat content
was 65 per cent.
There were 21 adulterated or unsatisfactory samples,
details of which are given in the Statistical Summary.
A much greater variety of foods has been analysed
than in previous years and, on the suggestion of the Public
Analyst, particular attention was given to imported products,
a number of which have been found to have misleading descriptions
but to be otherwise satisfactory, both chemically and bacteriologically.
Variety is indeed the spice of life, but I must confess
one somewhat boggles at the thought of consuming some of the
delicacies from the East now readily available for our delectation.
These include such items as fried grasshoppers, fried silkworms,
roasted caterpillars, chocolate covered ants, broiled octopus on
sticks and seasoned bumble-bees. They are not inexpensive and
apparently the market demand is considerable.