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Food COMPLAINTS
101 complaints were received alleging foodstuffs to be unsound or to contain foreign matter.

Foreign bodies identified in the specimens were as follows:—
Bread and flour confectionery. Grease from machinery, piece
of wood, dead insects, a piece of bandage, brush bristle, a small
foreign coin, cigarette end, piece of wire.
Tinned fo0dstuffs. A piece of plastic, dead beetles, a snail,
solder, and staining from the internal surface of the tins.
Pies, sausages, etc. Small stones, a piece of glass, a nail, a
metal staple, a small piece of broken metal.
Milk and milk bottles. Pieces of paper, paint, cement.
Other conditions comprised unusual taste and appearance of
various articles, decomposition, rancidity, live mites in flour, and
one instance of mouse droppings on bacon.
Some complaints were found to be due to misconceptions,
for instance the pieces of glass alleged to be in a packet of salt
proved to be salt crystals, and "plastic" in fish fingers was in fact
fish bone, whilst the smell, taste and appearance of articles sometimes
proved to be natural to the foodstuffs complained of.