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(c) Adulteration of Food. Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
The following table summarises the 238 samples taken
during the year.
Formal Informal
Milk 12 —
Soup, Meat Extracts 5 2
Pastes, Potted Meat — 6
Pudding or Cake Mixture, Flour, etc. ... 2 4
Jellies, Custard Powders, etc 2 6
Patent Medicines 2 4
Sausages, Sausage Meat, etc 8 3
Tea 1 2
Condiments, Sauces, Pickles, Spices, etc. 6 20
Pure Coffee, Coffee Extracts, Coffee and
Chicory 3 —
Meat Pies and Puddings — 1
Cereals 4
Sweets and Confectionery 21 26
Essences — 4
Butter and Fats 5 8
Water Ices 1 2
Ice Cream 10 1
Minerals 1 13
Beverages — 1
Wines and Spirits 7 —
Peanut Butter — 1
Preserves 1 1
Condensed Milk — 2
Ground Almonds 1
Cream 1 5
Dried Fruit 3 1
Baking Powder — 2
Cakes 1 —
Cheese and Savoury Spreads — 4
Fish — 5
Glace Cherries —
Olive Oil — 2
Desiccated Coconut 3
Stewed Steak —
Beans in Tomato Sauce — 1
Butter Beans and Baked Beans — 2
Biscuits 1 3
Bread —
Arrowroot —
100 138
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