[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch] page 30

Hornchurch 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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Table: FOOD COMPLAINTS REFERRED TO PUBLIC ANALYSTS.

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FOOD COMPLAINTS REFERRED TO PUBLIC ANALYSTS.

Sample No.	ARTICLE (General description)	Nature of Adulteration or Irregularity	Action taken
Cpt.1250	Bread.	Contained a lump of stale dough.	Matter considered by Council — Baker warned.
Cpt.1262	Milk.	Contained a rusty metal bolt.	Legal proceedings instituted Vendor/Bottling firm fined £10. tinder Section 2, Food Drugs Act, 1955.
Cpt.1267	Peppermint Lozenge.	Contained a small tin tack.	Matter considered by Council — Manufacturer warned.
Cpt.1289	Crystal Mint Sweets.	Contained foreign matter in the form of traces of sugar dyed red.	Matter considered by Council — no further action (traces only minute).
Cpt.1290	Chocolate Nut Crunch.	Contained a portion of a cigarette.	Legal proceedings instituted Manufacturer fined £5 plus costs.
Cpt.1310	Bread — slice of.	e Contained rodent excreta.	Legal proceedings instituted Bakery fined £5 plus costs.
Cpt.1311	Milk.	Contained a " milk skin " covered with mould growth.	Matter considered by Council - Milk bottling company warned
Cpt.1335	Bread.	Contained a garden moth.	Matter considered by Council Baker warned.
Cpt.1341	Bread.	Contained fragments of an insect.	Matter considered by Council Baker warned (Insect fragments too broken and small to identify).
Cpt.1369	Milk.	Contained foreign matter in the form of greyish brown filament — like matter consisting of a milk film covered with masses of mould growth.	Matter considered by Council - Bottling firm warned.
Cpt.1371	Bread.	Contained foreign matter in the form of bread darkened by the presence of oily matter.	Matter considered by Council Bakery firm warned.
Cpt.1393	Milk.	Bottle contaminated with paint or similar material.	Matter referred to local authority in whose district milk was bottled.