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With regard to those samples noted in the table as unsatisfactory I have the
following comments:-
MILK
The three samples of milk not satisfactory were all procured from cafes. One
sample was found to be slightly deficient in solids-not-fat and attempts were therefore
made on several later occasions to procure further samples. On each occasion
the cafe refused to serve hot milk and no action was therefore possible. Two
samples of hot milk were procured from another cafe both of which were found to
contain added water. It was found that the cafe did not normally sell hot milk but
produced them to oblige the customer. The added water was introduced because cold
milk was taken from stock and was heated on a steam injector. There was in fact no
other way at this cafe of heating milk. Steam injection it is found normally causes
about 10% of water to be added to milk during the heating process. Having had regard
to the circumstances of these particular samples the County Council instructed
that a caution be sent to the cafe proprietor.
CHEESE
A sample labelled by a retailer as "French Cream Cheese" was procured which
on analysis was found to contain 27.98% of milk-fat. It is considered that a cheese
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