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REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC
ANALYST FOR 1954
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, 1938-1954, 1,002 samples were examined during the year
ended 31st December, 1954, 936 of these were articles of food, and
the remaining 66, drugs. All were submitted by the Council's Food
Inspector, 328 having been taken with the formalities required by the
Act and 674 informally.
Samples of the following substances were analysed: cooking
fat and lard, 16; beverages (cocoa, colfee, etc.) 20 samples; cereal
preparations, 21; cream, 24; fish, canned, 24; fruit, canned, 67;
meat products (other than sausages), 36; milk, 364; pickles and
condiments (including spices), 46; preserves, 46; sausages, 17;
soup, 17; vegetables, canned, 17; friars balsam, 4; iodine solutions, 5;
ointments, 13; seidlitz powders.
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