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Penge 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Periodical visits were made to premises and stalls where foods are prepared,
stored or exposed for sale. Defects found at 23 food premises were
remedied.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human food,
after examination by your Inspectors, was 8 tons, 17 cwts. 0 qtrs. 22 lbs.
The items condemned were as follows :—
| Bacon | 10,413 lbs. | Meat and fish paste | 58 jars |
| Baking powder | 72 pkts. | Milk | 6 pts. |
| Beef | 8 lbs. | Onions | 56 lbs. |
| Butter | 19 lbs. | Oranges | 54 lbs. |
| Cake mixtures | 11 pkts. | Pickles | 9 jars |
| Cheese | 9 lbs. | Pudding mixture | 36 pkts. |
| Chicken | 3 lbs. | Rabbits | 1,656 lbs. |
| Cocoa | 6 lbs. | Rolled oats | 96 lbs. |
| Coffee | 1 tin | Sauces | 2 bots. |
| Coffee essence | 2 bots. | Sausage meat | 20 lbs. |
| Dates | 1,095 lbs. | Sausage rusk | 1,792 lbs. |
| Dried eggs | 1 pkt. | Soup powder | 60 pkts. |
| Eggs | 25 | Sugar confectionery | 92 lbs. |
| Fish | 1,132 lbs. | Tinned fish | 47 tins |
| Flour | 419 lbs. | Tinned fruit | 10 tins |
| Jam | 36 lbs. | Tinned meat | 607 tins |
| Lamb | 51 lbs. | Tinned meat and veg. | 40 tins |
| Lemon curd | 3 jars | Tinned milk | 347 tins |
| Macaroni | 12 lbs. | Tinned soup | 3 tins |
| Margarine | 1 lb. | Tinned vegetables | 113 tins |
| Meat extract...... | ... 1 bot. |
Condemnations certificates totalled 304.
The following Licences were issued under the Milk (Special Designations)
Orders :—
Dealers Licences:—
Tuberculin tested milk 1
Pasteurised Milk 3
Supfilernentary Licences :—Tuberculin tested milk 5
Pasteurised Milk 6
Adulteration, etc.
The Kent County Council's Inspector took 101 samples of various foods
in this district, of which 99 were found to be genuine. One sample of whisky was
adulterated with 13.6% of added water and proceedings resulted in the Licencee
being fined £15 Os. Od. with £5 5s. Od. costs. One sample of pearl barley was
found to contain a quantity of dead mites. The remainder of this stock was withdrawn
from sale and a further sample of another consignment proved to be
genuine,