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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 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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| Nature of Unsatisfactory Sample | Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (d) | Serial No. 4745 Pasteurised Milk | Composition: In each of the bottles there were 50 to 100 small black particles having the characteristics of rubber. The largest was approximately 1.5 mm. in diameter. | Legal proceedings. Bottler fined £50 with £14.70 costs. | |
| (d) | Serial No. 4746 Pasteurised Milk (3 pints) | |||
| (d) | Serial No. 4747 Pasteurised Milk (2 pints) | |||
| (d) | Serial No. 4748 Pasteurised Milk (Channel Islands) | |||
| (d) | Serial No. 4800 Pasteurised Milk Composition: A fly and an empty pupal case were present. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to bottler. | ||
| (d) | Serial No. 4744 Pasteurised School Milk Composition: The third of a pint bottle of milk contained a brass ring 13/8 in. in diameter with unjoined ends. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to bottler. | ||
| (d) | Serial No. 4708 Pasteurised Milk Composition: Contained rust particles. They weighed in aggregate 15 mg. and were of less than 1 mm. in diameter. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to dairy. | ||
| (d) | Serial No. 4707 Pasteurised Milk Composition: The bottle was badly stained internally down one side by fragments of denatured milk, in which mould had grown. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to dairy. | ||
| (d) | Serial No. 4709 | Matter investigated. Warning letter to dairy. | ||
| (d) | Serial No. 4706 Pasteurised Milk Composition: Contained four small dark coloured fragments of adventitious soiling material. | Matter investigated. Warning letter to bottlers. | ||