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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD AND FOOD
PREMISES.
Food and Drugs Administration.
Reference has already been made to the unfortunate death of
Mr. Taylor. In common with his partner he was a source of never failing
strength to us in dealing with the problems which from time to time
arise. His loss to us will be a real one.
In the following statistics the figures for last year are given within
brackets.
308 (290) samples were taken during the year of which 300 (277)
were found to be genuine (List A) and 8 (12) to be sub-standard (List B).
21 (18) food complaints were referred to the Public Analysts (List
C) and 22 (34) food complaints were dealt with informally (List D).
The accompanying lists (A and B) indicate the wide variety of
food and drugs actually sampled.
I would express my indebtedness to the Public Analysts, Dr. J.
Hubert Hamence, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. and Mr. Philip Sydney Hall,
B.Sc., F.R.I.C., for their helpful and ready advice in the many difficulties
which necessarily crop up in this highly specialised branch of our work.
It is astonishing how undefined appear to be the arrangements in
some shops for keeping separate goods known to be unfit from those
in normal condition. There can be no valid excuse for confusing known
good with known bad food and the fact that some inexperienced assistant
(as is sometimes stated) sells unfit food is merely a natural happening
in a haphazard system.