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FOOD AND DRUGS ADULTERATION ACT,
1928.
1,529 samples were procured for analysis during the year—
443 samples of milk, 979 other foodstuffs, and 107 drugs.
16 samples were found to be adulterated. Nine were
samples of milk, two of sugar, and one each of cakes, sausages,
haricot beans, butter and mustard.
Police Court proceedings were instituted against two farmers
in respect of two samples of milk wnich contained extraneous
water. One case was dismissed under the Probation of
First Offenders Act, on payment of £2 2s. Od. costs, and in the
other case, a conviction was obtained, and a fine of £10 with
£15 costs imposed.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933
and Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941.
Aplications were received from 215 persons for their names
to be entered on the Council's Register of sellers of poisons
included in Part II of the Poisons List. 523 inspections under
these Acts were made by the Food Inspectors.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There were 1,143 factories and workshops on the Register
at the end of 1943, and in addition, 537 persons were receiving
work to be done in their homes.
REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST.
Owing to war conditions, only 1,529 samples were submitted,
29 being formal and 1,500 informal. All the formal
samples were milk. The samples submitted for analysis consisted
of 443 milk, 979 other foodstuffs and 107 drugs. Nine
of the samples of milk were found to be adulterated. The
average composition of the milk analysed during the year was:—
Total milk solids, 12.46, milk fat 3.6, non-fatty solids, 8.85.
Seven samples of other foodstuffs were found to be adulterated,
viz.:— two sugar containing 20 and 40 per cent of
Epsom salts; cakes containing rancid fat; pork sausages,
deficient in meat; haricot beans containing pieces of chalk;
mustard which did not contain one of the ingredients required,
viz. black mustard; butter which on analysis proved wholly
margarine.