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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
The need for a higher standard in cleanliness of food production
and food handling becomes more evident as the years
pass—we lag behind many other countries. The Department is
active in this branch of their duties, and we can safely say, owing
to the happy relations we have with the proprietors and traders,
that progress has been made in 1949. In the following section
an endeavour is made to record the work of the past year.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Two hundred and forty-three samples of food were taken for
analysis under the above Act, 32 samples being formal. In the
Appendix 5 will be found a tabulation. Nine samples (one
formal) were found to be adulterated, and the following gives a
brief description of the action taken.
Sample
Cakes (Informal)
Tincture of Iodine (2)
(Informal).
Tin of Orange Juice
(on request from
Hospital Store).
Veal and Ham Paste
(Informal).
Loaf of Bread (on
complaint from consumer).
Meat Paste (Informal)
Analysts Report
Contained 1.2%
Mineral Oil
Complied with old
British Pharmacopoeia,
but not the
new.
Lacquer stripped from
inside of tin. Adulterated
with If grs.
of tin per lb.
Meat content 47%.
Prescribed standard,
55%, with a tolerance
of 5%.
Small blackened area,
consisting of dough
with hair and jute
fibres.
Meat content, 50%.
Prescribed standard,
55%, with a tolerance
of 5%.
Action taken
Vendors agreed to discontinue
practice of
greasing tins with
Mineral Oil.
Attention of vendors
drawn to new formula.
Remainder of stock condemned.
Result alleged to be due
to the use of a considerable
proportion
of very young veal
(Bobby Veal) with a
low protein value.
Analyst advised warning
only, and this was
given.
Full investigation made
at the bakery as to the
cause, and a satisfactory
explanation was
given and accepted.
Enquiries made, from
which it appeared that
the inferior quality of
the sample was due to
the imperfect mixing
of the paste when in
bulk. Warning given,