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REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC
ANALYST FOR 1953
The Public Analyst, J. E. Woodhead, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., Ph.C.
reports as follows. By virtue of the requirements of the Food and
Drugs Act 1938, 1,000 samples were examined during the year ended
31st December, 1953, 903 of these were articles of food, and the
remaining 97, drugs. All were submitted by the Council's Food
Inspector, 251 having been taken with the formalities required by the
Act and 749 informally.
Samples of the following substances were analysed:—Beverages
(cocoa, coffee, etc.) 14 samples; cereal preparations, 21; cream, 40;
fish, canned, 34; fruit, canned, 46; icecream, 22; milk, 265pickles
and sauces, 36; saccharin tablets, 10; spices and condiments, 19;
suet, 3; vegetables, canned, 36; water ices, 23; aspirin tablets, 6;
iodine solutions, 7; ointments, 11; seidlitz powders, 10.
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