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Food and Drugs Sampling.
(i) Food and Drugs Authority and Sampling Officers.
The Council is the food and drugs authority for the district and
your Sanitary Inspectors are authorised under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938 to procure and purchase samples of food and drugs for
chemical analysis or for bacteriological or other examination.
(ii) Public Analyst.
Dr. J. H. Hamence, F.R.I.C., and Mr. George Taylor,
F.R.I.C., 20, Eastcheap, London, E.C.3, continued to act as Public
Analysts for the area.
(iii) Samples submitted for chemical analysis.
During the period 1st January to 31st December, 1953, some
278 samples of food and drugs were procured by the Sanitary
Inspectors for submission to the Public Analyst for chemical analysis.
It will be seen from the tabular statement which follows that a
wide variety of commodities were sampled, and that in seven
instances adverse reports were received. The circumstances
relating to these seven samples were fully reported to the Public
Health Committee and are summarised hereunder.