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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
Hornsey 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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FOOD SAMPLING
I am indebted to J. A. O'Keefe, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Officer
of Public Control of the Middlesex County Council, for the following
information.
Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Samples procured in the Borough of Hornsey during the year 1962 -
| Articles | Total Samples Procured |
| Milk (various) | 22 |
| Butter | 17 |
| Bacon | 3 |
| Cakes | 4 |
| Cheese | 14 |
| Coffee | 5 |
| Cream | 12 |
| Drugs | 21 |
| Fish and Fish Products | 12 |
| Fruit (all kinds) | 20 |
| Ice Cream | 7 |
| Jelly | 3 |
| Liver | 23 |
| Margarine | 8 |
| Meat and Meat Products | 92 |
| Mustard | 3 |
| Preserves | 4 |
| Sausages | 16 |
| Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices | 3 |
| Vegetables | 3 |
| Vinegar | 12 |
| Miscellaneous | 19 |
| Total | 323 |
Only one was found to be unsatisfactory. This was a sample
of melon seeds submitted to the Public Analyst as the result of a
complaint. The complaint was that the seeds were not melon seeds.
In fact the Public Analyst reported that the seeds were properly
described but that the oil in which they were packed was slightly
rancid. Saponification iodine and acid values all indicated that the
sample was free from adulteration and no action was therefore taken.
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