[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 104

Bromley 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample		Remarks
(a)	Serial No. 1053. Corned Beef. Composition: Embedded in the corned beef was a dipterous fly which had undergone heat treatment.	Reported to Committee. Matter drawn to attention of Importers.
	Serial No. 1115.
	Untreated Milk.
(b)	Composition: Contained approximately 1% added water.	Formal sample taken, see Serial No. 116.
	Serial No. 1116.
	Untreated Milk.
(b)	Composition: Contained approximately 2% added water.	Investigation of production. Producer warned.
(b)	Serial No. F.C. 164. Milk containing foreign matter. Composition: Contained a pipe cleaner which, although rusty, did not appear to have been used in a pipe.	Reported to Committee. Dairy Company warned.
(b)	Serial No. 1050. Milk containing foreign matter. Composition: Contained a sand cement residue in the base of the bottle.	Reported to Committee. Bottlers warned.
(b)	Serial No. 1084. Milk containing foreign matter. Composition: The bottle had adhering to the inner surface of the glass eight pupae of a phorid fly.	Legal proceedings Vendor fined £50 with £6 19s. 6d. costs.
	Serial No. 1055.
	Butter.
(c)	Composition: Moisture 16.4%. Slightly above the allowable maximum (16%).	Correspondence with Importers - Satisfactory.
	Serial No. 1051.
	Buttered Roll.
(d)	Composition: Not more than 10% of the fat spread on the roll consisted of butter fat.	Repeat formal sampleSatisfactory.
	Serial No. 1102.
	Garden Peas.
(e)	Composition: Contained a small snail-Trichia Striolata, common on cultivated land in Britain.	Reported to Committee. Packers warned.
	Serial No. 1085.
	Bread.
(f)	Composition: Contained a living full grown larva of the Mediterranean Flour Moth, Ephestia.	Reported to Committee. Distributor warned.
	Serial No. 1052.
	Bread.
(f)	Composition: Contained a small fragment of die casting alloy (zinc with small amounts of aluminium and copper).	Reported to Committee. Baker warned.