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recommend the Council to take action, under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, in all cases where preservatives are found in the milk
sold in the Borough.
Most of the samples purchased under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act have been obtained through the employment of a deputy,
for the sanitary inspectors are well known to tradesmen and others.
During the year we have on two occasions obtained the services of
individuals who have acted as more or less constant customers at
two shops which were under suspicion, and after they had been dealing
at these shops for several weeks, we obtained their services as
agents; but the samples procured did not prove on analysis to be
adulterated. In a few instances we have purchased samples without
going through the formalities prescribed by the Acts; the object
being to submit these to analysis, and, if they proved unsatisfactory,
to subsequently take samples under the prescribed formalities, so
that proceedings might be instituted against the vendor.