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FOOD COMPLAINTS
The 128 complaints received regarding alleged unsatisfactory items of food was 33 less than
those received in the prevous year. This decrease was mainly in respect of bread and flour
confectionery, and the conditions of milk and milk bottles.
A full investigation was made of every complaint and for various reasons 12% were found to be
unjustified. Amongst the remainder some were considered to be sufficiently serious to warrant
prosecutions, whilst the balance were dealt with by the issue of written warnings.

Foreign bodies and conditions identified in the specimens were -
Bread and flour confectionery : Wood splinters, mould, chewing gum, rubber band,
small piece of metal, bakehouse char, small metal
bolt, pieces of plastic, drawing pin.
Tinned foodstuffs : Insects, solder, small pieces of metal, fish hook
(in Salmon), mould, discolouration of insides of
tins, pieces of glass.
Pies, Sausages etc : Mould, a tin tack, piece of wire, insects.
Milk and milk bottles : Pieces of plastic, paint, bottle top, stains on
inside of bottles, cement.
Cereals I Larvae, mould, metal.
Chocolate and sugar confectionery: Sticking plaster, discolouration, insects, piece
of wire, larvae.
Miscellaneous : Insects in cooked chicken, dirt on oven ready
chicken, mould and dirty marks on bacon, mould
on potatoes, tainted bacon, larvae in fish cakes,
sour evaporated milk, insects in frozen peas,
mould in bottled beer, mould in yogurt, cider
femented cloudy.
Butter: Rancid condition, mould.
Cheese: Insects, staleness
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