[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon] page 76

Croydon 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Article	Nature of Adulteration or Deficiency	Remarks
Pickled Dill Cucumbers	The label specifying the ingredients had become detached from the jar.	A more permanent method has now been adopted.
Pork Sausage Meat	Consisted of preserved pork sausage meat.	A notice declaring the presence of a preservative in this article has now been exhibited on the Vendor's premises.
Tinned Pork Sausages	This sample contained an added preservative	Packers of this product have been warned.
Beef Sausages	This sample contained an added preservative.	A notice declaring the presence of a preservative in this article has now been exhibited on the Vendor's premises.
Asp aragus Cuts	This article was a sample of asparagus spears wit^> *alt. The added salt was not specified on the label, as required by the Labelling of Food Order, 1953.	The existing labels have been overprinted with the words 'with added salt* until new label could be introduced.
Tinned Black-) currants (1 ) sample) ) Tinned Black ) Sweet Cherries) (1 sample) )	These two samples did not carry the common or usual name, "Blackcurrants in Syrup" and "Black Sweet Cherries in Syrup*	Both labels have now been have now been amended by the packers.
Cream Splits	This sample contained an imitation cream filling.	Vendor Prosecuted.
Olives (3 samples) Aubergines Marinated Mushrooms (2 samples) Paprikaschoten	These samples which contained more than two ingredients were not labelled in accordance with the labelling of Food Order, 1953.	New labels introduced.
Gin Mild Beer	Sample contained added water, do do	Vendor Prosecuted, do
Vitamine Cream	This article of food did not contain a specification of the ingredients on the outer carton or jar, nor did it include quantative particulars of Vitamins on leaflets which accompanied the article.	This article had been in stock for some time and stock remaining was destroyed.
Bassamati Rice (2 samples)	Both samples were infested with insects and contained a large number of fragments of a type of grain beetle and a few fragments of rice weavils.	Existing stocks were destroyed.
Mustard & Cress	This sample which contained no seeds or seedlings of cress.	Further sample taken was satisfactory.
Brown Rice	This sample was a sample of decorticated rice. Brown Rice is rice including the outer skin or bran which is removed to form ordinary rice of commerce. This rice was falsely described as "brown rice*.	Premises occupied by New Owner who has been warned regarding the description of this article.