| *Foreign matter found in Apple & Blackcurrant Pie | Informal | Consisted of a small splinter of bone, half an inch long. | Appropriate representations were made to the Caterer concerned. |
| *Foreign matter found in Shepherds Pie | Informal | The specimen consisted of a piece of heat-resistant glass weighing nearly one gramme. | Legal proceedings were instituted against the Caterers who were given an absolute discharge and ordered to pay £5. 5s. 0d. costs. |
| *Fudge | Informal | Contained adhering to one of the cubes a dead caterpillar (Ephe-stia elutella larva). | A cautionary letter was sent by the Comptroller and City Solicitor to the retailer in question. |
| Fish Cakes | Informal | The fish cakes bore several small surface growths of mould and were unfit for sale. | The Manager of the retail shop was interviewed and informed of the Analyst's report. He agreed that in future all stock, such as fish cakes, left over at the end of the day would be destroyed and not as hitherto returned to the supplier. |
| *Fresh Salmon | Informal | Consisted of a fresh salmon steak but was found on being cooked to have an objectionable taint of crude petroleum. | This complaint was referred to the Fishmongers' Company who carried out an investigation. |
| Prawns in Creole Sauce | Informal | The ingredients included a packet of rice which was found to be coated with talc and hydrolysed starch. The presence of these ingredients was not disclosed on the label as required by the Labelling of Food Order 1953. | This product has been withdrawn from sale until a suitably amended label has been prepared |
| Milk-Hot | Formal | Contained fat, 3.06%: Solids-not-fat, 7.30% corresponding to the presence of 14% of added water. Added water confirmed by the freezing point, — 0.461°C. (Hortvet) | In each of these cases the presence of added water in the milk was found to be the result of heating the milk by means of steam injection. |
| Milk-Hot | Formal | Contained fat, 3.32%: Solids-not-fat, 7.84% corresponding to the presence of 7% of added water. Added water confirmed by the freezing point, — 0.498 C. (Hortvet). | |
| Milk-Hot | Formal | Contained fat, 2.84%: Solids-not-fat, 6.18% corresponding to the presence of 27% added water. Added water confirmed by the freezing point, — 0.373°C. (Hortvet). | Appropriate representations were made to the Caterers concerned and in each case they agreed in writing to refrain from heating their milk by steam injection. |
| Milk-Hot | F ormal | Contained fat, 3.63%: Solids-not-fat, 7.90% corresponding to the premises of 7% of added water. Added water confirmed by the freezing point, — 0.490°C. (Hortvet). | |
| *Milk | Informal | Contained — Milk-fat, 2.02%: Solids-not-fat, 5.22% corresponding to the presence of 38% of added water. Added water confirmed by the freezing point — 0.319° C. (Hortvet). | This complaint referred to milk sold from a staff canteen. An investigation failed to indicate how or by whom the milk had been watered. A subsequent formal sample purchased from the same premises was found on analysis to be genuine. |
| Yoghourt | Informal | Contained — Milk fat, 3.3%: Milk-solids other than milk fat, 7.8%: Yoghourt is normally made by the controlled souring of concentrated milk and products sold as Yoghourt in the London are a contain at least 10% of milk-solids other than milk fat. | The matter of the Analyst's report was taken up with the producers of the Yoghourt, which is made from goat's milk, as originated in the Balkans. As there is no generally accepted standard for Yoghourt or legal presumptive standard for goat's milk the City Solicitor advised that the evidence available was insufficient to warrant legal proceedings. |
