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Explanations were submitted by the sellers of the circumstances of the sales
of these two samples of cream without the required labels and no action was
considered necessary beyond letters of warning to both vendors.
Eleven samples of preserved cream were examined and found to be in
accordance with the Regulations, the statement on the labels as to the amount of
preservative being in each case correct. In all the samples of preserved cream the fat
exceeded 35 per cent. No contravention of the Regulations, other than that
mentioned above, was discovered during the year.
Condensed Milk.
The Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923, came into operation
on the 1st November, 1923.
During the year 1927, 14 samples of condensed milk, viz., five full cream,
and nine skimmed sweetened, were examined by the Borough Analyst under the
Regulations.
All the samples complied with the requirements of the Regulations as to
labelling.
All the samples were examined for standard of composition and all were
found to be equal to or above the standard required.

Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923.
These Regulations came into operation on the 1st day of May, 1924, and are
generally similar to the Regulations with regard to condensed milk.
Very few brands of dried milk are sold in the Borough. Nine samples,
covering those generally used, were obtained during the year, and found to comply
with the Regulations.