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investigated. Of these articles, 18 were submitted to the Public Analyst for his
opinion.
Articles of food involved included a number of cases of bread found to contain
foreign bodies such as cotton sacking, string, poppy seeds and feathers. Full or
empty bottles of milk were found to contain such items as mould, sand and cement,
potato peelings, a steel wool pad, clay and soil, and traces of petrol. In all these
cases there was evidence that the bottles had passed through the normal bottle
washing process, from which it was concluded that the foreign bodies were present
in the bottles at the time of filling at the dairy premises. Other articles of food
concerned included ice cream containing excreta, chewing gum wrapper in canned
soup, chilli powder diluted with corn meal, green dye in sausages, and metal in toffee.
Details of 20 legal proceedings concerning the sale of unsound food or food "not
of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser" are given in Table 14
on page 127.
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