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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bromley 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Nature of Unsatisfactory SampleRemarks
(k)Serial No. 2190. Raw Minced Meat. Composition: Contained the smoked stub of a cigarette.Reported to Committee. No further action as soure of foreign body not ascertained.
00Serial No. 2178. Stewed Steak. Composition: Contained a piece of tile, weighing 46 grams. It was not possible to determine whether the tile had been processed with the meat.Reported to Committee. Matter drawn to attention of Canners.
(k)Serial No. 2183. Minced Beef with Onion and Gravy. Composition: Meat 47 per cent. Slightly below the prescribed standard of 50 per cent.Repeat sample — satisfactory.
(k)Serial No. 2349. Stewed Steak with Gravy. Composition: Meat content 62 per cent as opposed to the declared minimum of 70 per cent.Correspondence with Importers. Repeat sample — withdrawn from sale.
(o)Serial No. 2322. Sausage. Composition: Insufficient care in use of the colour Red 2G had caused a local concentration of this material in the sausage.Reported to Committee. Matter drawn to attention of Manufacturers.
(o)Serial No. 2162. Pork Sausages. Composition: Contained sulphite preservative, 130 p.p.m., which had not been declared.Warning to Vendor. Notice now exhibited.
(o)Serial No. 2266. Sausages. Composition: Staining of the meat was due to an oil soluble coal tar dye.Reported to Committee. Matter drawn to attention of Manufacturer.
(o)Serial No. 2148. Beef Sausages. Composition: Contained sulphite preservative, 290 p.p.m., which had not been declared.Warning to Vendor. Notice now exhibited.
(k)Serial No. 2159. Steak Pie. Composition: The pie weighed 121 grams and contained 25 grams of meat. A pie of this weight should contain not less than 28 grams of meat.Repeat formal sample — Satisfactory. Manufacturer notified.
(P)Serial No. 2202. Scampi Pate. Composition: Fish content 53 per cent. Current regulations require not less than 70 per cent.Correspondence with Manufacturer. Repeat sample — satisfactory.