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1930]
80
Informal Sampling.—The informal samples purchased included the
following:—
No. of Samples No. of
Article. Article. Samples.
Milk 3 Cayenne Pepper 1
Butter 174 Turkish Delight 1
Lard 14 Crushed Linseed 3
Sweets 10 Swiss Roll 2
Cakes and Buns 6 Lime Juice 2
Preserved Sausages 6 Potato Salad 1
Sausages 54 Liver Sausage 1
Coffee 13 Sherbert 1
Jam and Marmalade 4 Bread 1
Pepper 6 Luncheon Sausage 1
Arrowroot 9 Pressed Beef 1
Biscuits 3 Roll and Butter 7
Fish Paste 1 Port Wine 1
Honey 4 Bread and Butter (cut) 2
Mustard 3 Lemonade Powder 1
Rice 8 Chocolates 3
Baking Powder 1 Cream Sherry Trifle 2
Cocoa 5 Tripe ]
Cream Cakes and Pastries 2 Dripping 1
Dried Full Cream Milk 11 Fish 1
Cheese 3 Flaked suet with flour 1
Prawns 7 Formalin 1
Confectionery 3 Full Cream (unsweetened) Con-
Ham 1 densed Milk 1
Cream 1 Ginger Wine 1
Ground Ginger 1 Mixed Peel 6
Glucose 1 Icing Sugar 1
Artificial Cream 1 Full Cream (sweetened) Con-
Ice Cream 1 densed Milk 1
Tapioca 1 Ground Almonds 2
Tea 2 Raisins 1
Cream Sandwich 3 Minced Beef 1
Olive Oil 2 Jam 3
Cane Treacle 2
Milk Sugar 1 Total 420
Milk.—The qualitative result of the Analyses of the Milk samples, which have
now been published for many years, are as follows
No. of Samples. Solids not Fat. Fat, Total Solids.
Milk purchased on Sundays 110 8.86 8.69 12.55
Milk purchased on Week-days 439 8.85 3.61 12.46
Milk procured in transit at
Finsbury Park Station 123 8.90 3.90 12.80
Official Standard 8.50 3.00 11.50
Sophistication of Milk.—The particulars as to the genuineness or otherwise
of the samples procured or purchased on Sundays, Weekdays, and at
Finsbury Park Railway Station are as follows:—
Percentage
Number taken. Genuine. Adulterated. Adulterated.
On Sundays 110 110 Nil 0 0
On Week-days 439 429 10 2.3
At Railway Stations 123 122 1 0.8
(Farmers' Milks)
672 661 11 1.5