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REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST FOR 1952
I have pleasure in presenting my report on the work performed
in the laboratory for your Council during the year ended
31st December, 1952. I was appointed Deputy Public Analyst by the
Council in 1941, and I have continued to act in this capacity during
the year under review.
By virtue of the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938,
I have to report that 1,099 samples were examined under the Act
during the year ended 31st December, 1952: 1,009 articles of food
and 90 drugs. All were submitted by your Council's Food Inspector,
346 having been taken with the formalities required by the Act
and 753 informally.
Samples of the following substances were analysed:—Beverages
(cocoa, coffee, etc.), 24 samples; biscuits, 24; butter, 4; cake and
pudding mixtures, 12; cereal preparations, 33; cheese, 21; cooking
fat and lard, 4; fish, canned, 24; fruit, canned, 22; ice-cream, 37;
margarine, 4; meat products (other than sausages), 22; milk, 383;
pickles and sauces, 51; preserves (jam, marmalade, etc.), 37; sausages,
14; soup, canned, 32; spices and condiments, 37; sugar, 4; suet, 4;
tea, 9; vegetables, 52; aspirin tablets, 7; iodine solutions, 11;
laxative oils, 23; ointments, 18; sal volatile, 5.
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