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FOOD COMPLAINTS
There were 27 complaints as to contaminated or unsound foods
and in five cases the Council decided to institute legal proceedings
against the firms who sold the food which formed the subjects of
complaints; three were in relation to foreign bodies in bread, one
referred to a cream-filled gateau which was mouldy, and in the
final case a foreign body in wrapped toffee.
The respective firms were fined, as intimated below, and the
Council were awarded costs as noted: —
A firm of bakers was fined £10 in respect of a wholemeal
loaf containing a cigarette end and £10 in respect of a loaf
containing a small piece of iron. The costs totalled £25 in these
two cases.
Another firm of bakers was fined £20—costs £3 3s in
respect of a loaf containing adhesive surgical plaster.
Yet another firm of bakers was fined £25—costs £15 15s.—
in respect of a cream-filled gateau in a mouldy (penicillium)
condition.
A wholesale firm of sweet manufacturers were fined £2 2s.—
costs £2 2s.—in respect of a piece of wrapped toffee containing
a small metal bolt.
In a number of other cases the Council took suitable warning
action against the offenders.