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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1952
Analysis of Food and Drugs
During the year 1,099 samples of foods and drugs were procured
for analysis. Three hundred and eighty-three samples of milk,
626 other foodstuffs and 90 drugs. Of these 346 were submitted as
formal samples while 753 were purchased informally. Three, or
0.9 per . of the formal samples, and 21, or 2.8 per cent. of the
informal samples, were found to be adulterated or not up to standard.
The total adulterations reported were 24, or 2.4 per cent., of the
samples submitted.
The 24 samples found to be adulterated were:—
six samples of ice-cream, three each of pork sausages and sal
volatile; two of milk; one each of anchovy paste, herring roes,
meat extract, non-brewed condiment, peas, scone flour, senna
pods, sherbet, soup and tincture of iodine.
It was not necessary to take Police Court proceedings in any of
the above cases of adulterated samples.