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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southwark 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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DISPOSAL OF UNSOUND OR CONTAMINATED FOOD
| Commodity | Disposed of for purposes other than human food | Released under supervision of other local authority | Re-exported | Destroyed | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | T | C | Q | L | |
| Bacon | 1 | 15 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 13 | |||||||||
| Beans | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Butter | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Casings | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Egg products | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Cheese | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Fish | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Fish (canned) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Flour | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit (canned) | 82 | 16 | 0 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit (dried) | 8 | 1 | 12 | |||||||||||||
| Ginger | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Kangaroo meat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Lard | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Meat | 91 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Meat (canned) | 103 | 10 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Nuts | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Offals | 10 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
| Onions | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Peas | 2 | 19 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Peppers | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Pickles | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Prawns | 31 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Rice | 4 | 11 | 2 | 18 | ||||||||||||
| Tea | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Tomato Puree | 141 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Vegetables (frozen) | 45 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Various | 26 | 17 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 118 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 196 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 310 | 14 | 3 | 7 |
96 consignments of imported food were detained and subsequently were released for re-export,
manufacture and treatment, animal feeding or destruction, all with the necessary safeguards.
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