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Notes of the Borough Analyst on Samples Examined During the Year 1935.
During the year 1935, 601 samples were submitted to me for analysis in
accordance with the provisions of the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, 548
having been purchased with the required formalities and 53 obtained informally.
Of this total 11 (1.8 per cent.) proved to be adulterated, nine being samples
submitted formally and two informally. In the previous year 2.83 per cent, of the
samples were certified to be " not genuine."
The adulterated articles consisted of Milk, Cream Buns, Ginger Wine, Vinegar
and Whisky.
Milk.—Two hundred and eighteen samples of the milk were analysed and six
of these (2.8 per cent.) fell below the limits required by the Board of Agriculture
Regulations—3.0 per cent, of fat and 8.50 per cent, of non-fatty solids—and were
certified to be adulterated accordingly. One sample had been diluted with water
to the extent of at least 2.3 per cent, and from the five others fat had been
abstracted to the extent of from 2.6 to 25.3 per cent, respectively.
It may be of interest here to insert two tables prepared by the Public Health
Department from the returns of the Borough Analyst showing (1) the Fat Content
of the 218 samples of Milk indicating their places of origin, and (2) the Monthly
Variation in the Chemical Composition.