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REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC
ANALYST FOR 1962
Mr. J. E. Woodhead, B.sc., f.r.i.c., f.p.s., resigned his parttime
appointment as the Council's public analyst as from June and
in his place, his deputy, Mr. D. G. Forbes, b.sc., f.r.i.c., was
appointed by the Council.
Mr. Forbes reports as follows: By virtue of the requirements of
the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, 1,000 samples were examined during
the year ended 31st December, 1962; 937 were articles of food and
the remaining 63 drugs. All were submitted by the Council's Food
Inspectors, 240 having been taken with the formalities required by
the Act and 760 informally.
Samples of the following substances were analysed: fats (butter,
margarine, etc.), 56; beverages (cocoa, coffee, tea, etc.), 60; cereal
preparations, 45; cheese products, 30; confectionary, 76; cream, 11;
fish (canned, etc.), 33; fruit (canned and dried), 62; ice-cream, 2;
meat products (including sausages), 74; milk, 260; pickles and condiments
(including spices), 57; preserves, 47; soup, 27; vegetables, 44;
aspirin tablets, 6; Beecham's powders, 3; Friar's balsam, 4;
Glaubers salts, 4; ointments, 7; linctus, 6; tincture of quinine, 7; sal
volatile, 3; Seidlitz powders, 3.
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