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REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST
FOR THE
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31st, 1906.
SAMPLES SUBMITTED.—During the period under review
524 samples were submitted for analysis. Of this number,
495 were purchased by your inspectors in conformity with the
provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. The remaining
29 samples were purchased as test samples, and without declaration
to vendors.
ADULTERATED SAMPLES.—Of the 495 official samples
submitted, 46, or 9.29 per cent. were adulterated, compared with
7'98 per cent. in the previous year (1905) and 9.38 per cent. in
1904.
TEST SAMPLES.—Of the 29 test samples submitted,
11, or 37'93 per cent., were adulterated. Samples were
subsequently purchased in official form.
Test samples were taken in several cases as a result of
complaint from householders that the goods they were receiving
were of a suspicious quality. The intention was to obtain a
sample without the formalities of purchase and in a manner
similar to that adopted by the ordinary householder.
House-to-House Sale of Sophisticated Butter.—Towards
the end of the year 1905, information was received that a firm
situated outside the Borough was manufacturing margarine into
pats to represent butter, and effecting a large sale in a portion
of our district, through the agency of a man who conducted a