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Milk contained 1.8 per cent, of excessive water. Vendor cautioned.
Butter contained 10 per cent, of excessive water. Vendor
cautioned.
Milk deficient in fat and soliis not fat 3.3 per cent, and 3.5 per
cent, respectively, purchased from street vendor (itinerant)
Letter of caution sent to proprietors
Butter contained 1.5 per cent, excessive water. Vendor
cautioned.
Margarine. Parcel or package exposed for sale by retail and not
properly labelled. Owner cautioned.
Compound Powder of Jalap imperfectly mixed, a large portion of
Cream of Tartar being in lumps. Vendor cautioned.
Margarine sold in a wrapper faintly marked "Margarine."
Vendor cautioned.
Milk deficient in solids not fat 3.5 per cent. Vendor cautioned.
Preservatives in Butter.
Of the 137 samples of Butter 50 contained percentages of boric acid
as follows:—
0 25%; 0.1%; 0.3%; 0.2%; 0.2%; 0.36%; 0.3%; 0.2%; 0.3%;
0.3%; 0.1%; 0.3%; 0.1%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0.2%; 0.2%; 0.2%; 0.2%;
0.2%; 0.2%; 0.2%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0*3%; 0.35%; 0.4%; 0*3%;
0.3%; 0.4%; 0.4%; 0.5%; 0.4%; 0.37%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0.5%;
0.1%; 0.3%; 0.25%; 0.8°%*; 0.25%; 0.47%; 0.5%; 0.3%; 0.3%; 0.5%;
and 0.1%.
* Legal proceedings instituted, £1 penalty and 12s. 6d. costs.