Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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A dulterated S amples, etc.
Serial No. | Article | Formal or Informal | Nature of Adulteration or Irregularity | Observations |
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686A | Family Lung Syrup | Informal | Was almost devoid of chloroform and deficient in glycerine. | Warning letter |
705A | Ice Cream Mixture | Informal | Description of ingredients unsatisfactory. | Warning letter |
723A | Lactic Cheese | Informal | Description "creamy" could be misleading. | Warning letter |
732A | Milk | Informal | Contained foreign matter which covered half the bottom of the bottle and smaller fragments of similar matter in suspension in the milk. Foreign matter consisted of mould growth. | Warning letter |
733A | Dirty Milk Bottle | Informal | Contained a foreign body in the form of a fragment of leaf tissue. | Warning letter |
734A | Cheese Roll | Informal | Contained fragments of discoloured gluten. | No action |
738A | Bread | Informal | Contained foreign matter in the form of stale and burnt dough and very faint traces of iron. | Warning letter |
766A | Breakfast Grill | Informal | Labelling—ingredients in wrong order. | Warning letter |
767A | Instant Coffee | Informal | Contained 60 parts per million of Sulphur Dioxide—not permitted. | Warning letter |
783A | Zinc and Castor Oil Cream | Informal | Contained 0.9% excess Zinc Oxide. | Referred to manufacturers |
785A | Milk | Informal | Contained foreign matter in the form of mould growth on a milk film. | Warning letter |
786A | Milk | Informal | Contained foreign matter in the form of mould growth on a milk film. | Warning letter |
787A | Fresh Egg Boudoir Biscuits | Informal | Composition does not justify claim "non-fattening.'' | Warning letter |
796A | Snowfoam Crystals | Informal | No declaration of ingredients. | Warning letter |
799A | Milk Rolls | Informal | Contained insufficient milk solids to justify the description "=milk rolls." | Formal sample taken |
804A | Milk | Informal | Contained mould growth in suspension on inside of bottle. | Warning letter |
822A | Liquid Extract of Cascara Sagrada | Informal | Contained a heavy deposit and, therefore, out of condition. | Warning letter |
2561 | Milk Rolls | Formal | Contained insufficient milk solids to justify description of milk rolls. | Warning letter |