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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 1969
[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 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Beans | 5 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 44 | 7 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| Butter | 67 | 7 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Casings | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Cheese | 2 | 19 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
| Cocoa | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Coffee | 21 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Egg products | 80 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| Fish (canned) | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Fruit | 7 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Fruit (canned) | 49 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fruit juice | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| (canned) | ||||||||||||||||
| Kangaroo meat | 33 | 18 | 0 | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Meat | 25 | 8 | 0 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| Meat (canned) | 18 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 69 | 16 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||
| Milk powder | i | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Nuts | 12 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Onions | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Peas | 2 | 19 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Prawns | 60 | 19 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Rice | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||||
| Tapioca | 17 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tea | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Tomato puree | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Vegetables | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Vegetables | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| (frozen) | 12 | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| Various | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 116 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 199 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 168 | 12 | 0 | 22 | 169 | 15 | 1 | 17 |
66 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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