[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley] page 110

Bromley 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample		Remarks
	Serial No. 1394.
	Barley Beef Soup.
(u)	Composition: Description considered to be ambiguous. A preferable description would have been Barley and Beef Soup. Serial No. F.C. 184. Drinking Chocolate.	No action.
(V)	Composition: Contained coconut fibres.	Legal proceedings. Manufacturers fined £15 with £9 6s. 1. costs.
	Serial No. 1426.
(w	Chili Powder. Composition: This was a compound article being a mixture of spices and should therefore have been described as such.	Correspondence with Manufacturers. Re-labelling to satisfactory standard.
	Serial No. 1276.
	Ground Cinnamon.
(h)	Composition: The volatile oil content 0.63 v/w) was below the acceptable minimum of 0.7 v.w.	Correspondence with Manufacturers Satisfactory.
	Serial No. 1544.
	Angelica.
(w	) Composition: Contained the colour Blue VRS which is no longer permitted, this dye having been withdrawn from the permitted list this year.	Re-exporting this product to overseas supplier.
	Serial No. 1619.
	Foreign body in Luncheon Meat.
(a)	Composition: Contained a spiral of iron wire 1mm. in diameter and 11 mm. in length.	Reported to Committee. Embassy of exporting country notified.
	Serial No. 1689.
	Pork Pie.
(a)	Composition: Contained a fragment of aluminium alloy 0.5 cm. x 0.3 cm. overall which appeared to have been in the dough before baking.	Legal proceedings. Manufacturer fined £30 with £7 7s. Od. costs.
	Serial No. 1671.
	Cornish Pasty.
(a]	i Composition: Contained a single hair 7 cm. long having the characters of a wool fibre.	Reported to Committee. Baker warned.
	Serial No. 1713.
	Steak Pie.
(a)	1= Composition: The meat content was 13.5% as opposed to the required standard of 25%.	Correspondence with Manufacturers - Repeat sample - satisfactory.
	Serial No. 1661.
	Milk containing foreign matter.
(b)	Composition: On the inner surface of the bottle were small areas of discolouration due to mould growths in denatured milk. Some of the mould was free in the milk.	Reported to Committee. Dairy Company warned.