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The inspectors paid 399 visits to milk shops and dairies during the
year. Three notices were served in respect of minor defects, which were
duly rectified.
An itinerant vendor was summoned for selling milk in Westminster,
not having been registered in accordance with the above Order. The
summons was dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act, and
defendant ordered to pay £1 1s. costs.
A milk roundsman was summoned for filling bottles with milk and
sealing them in the street instead of on registered premises as required
by the Order. He was fined 10s.
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.
Analysis of Milk Samples.—The percentage of adulterated samples
since 1920 is given in Table I below.
The legal minimum standards for milk fat and non-fatty solids as
laid down in the Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901, are 3 per cent, and 8.5
per cent, respectively.
Grades of quality for milk have been set up by the analysts
according to the percentage of milk fat. They are:—
Good quality: Over 3.8 per cent, of fat.
Fair quality: Between 3.3 per cent, and 3.8 per cent.
Poor quality: Between 3 per cent, and 3.3 per cent.
Adulterated: Below 3 per cent, fat or 8.5 per cent, non-fatty
solids.