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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Serial No. 3449 (a) Cooked rashers of Bacon Composition: Contained three rodent droppings. The absence of phosphatase enzymes indicated that they had been heated. | Legal proceedings. Cafe proprietor fined £25 with £9 19s. 6d. costs. |
| Serial No. 3493 | |
| (b) Pork Sausages Composition: Contained 180 p.p.m. sulphite without declaration, contrary to the requirements of the Preservatives in Food Regulations. | These sausages normally made without preservative. Discrepancy arose through use of a borrowed rusk which contained preservative. Now satisfactory. |
| Serial No. 3450 | |
| (c) Fish Finger Composition : Contained a nail i in. long and of a type known as a panel pin. Adherent to it were softwood fragments together with small amounts of a starchy matter suggesting that it had been cooked in the fish finger. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to producer. |
| Serial No. 3407 | |
| (d) Channel Island Milk Composition : Free in the milk was a skin of denatured milk in which mould had grown. | Legal proceedings. Bottler fined £25 with £5 5s. costs. |
| Serial No. 3560 | |
| (e) Butter Composition : The foreign body associated with the butter was a bent piece of iron wire 0.9 in. in length and 0.035 in. in diameter. The butter itself was contaminated by a few specks of rust where the wire was in contact. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to packers. |
| Serial No. 3406 | |
| (f) Bread Composition: A house fly was embedded in the crumb and the absence of phosphatase enzymes indicated that insect had been heated. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to bakers. |
| Serial No. 3559 | |
| (f) Bread Composition: There was a house fly embedded in the crumb and the absence of phosphatase enzymes indicated that the insect had been heated. | Matter investigated. Strong warning letter to bakers. |