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All the drugs examined were not only pure but
also accurately dispensed.
The fact still remains (as I have had occasion to
point out frequently before") that the only class of traders
who now resort to habitual adulteration are those who
deal in dairy products. The real way to keep them in
check is not by the infliction of an occasional paltry fine
of 40s., but by continually visiting them, so that they
never may know when they are safe. At present a man
gets fined and he can straightway recoup himself by
putting in an extra dose of water for the next few
weeks, because he knows that the chances are very much
against his being visited again for a long time, the
Inspector being limited to take only 200 samples per
annum, or in other words, not quite 4 samples a week.
I am afraid that we will never be able to reduce the
adulteration of milk below its present limit until the
Inspector obtains the power to make a larger number
of purchases than he at present possesses.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN MUTER, Ph.D.; P.R.S. (Edin.); F.I.C.,
Public Analyst.