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35.
FOOD & DRUGS ADMINISTRATION (Contd,)
Details of Unsound Food.,
No instance occurred during 1963 which required seizure of unfit food.
All food found upon inspection to "be unfit for human consumption was
voluntarily surrendered.
Certain commodities were allowed to go forward for technical processes
under guarantee that no portion would "be used for any other purpose whatsoever.
Herewith is a list of surrendered unsound foodstuffs:-
Apples 14 cans, Apricot Pulp 20 lbs, , Asparagus 12 tins, Bacon 36 cwt 1 qr 9 lb
4 oz, Beans 99 tins, Blackberries 227 tins, Blackcurrants 13 lb 4 oz,
Brisling 2 tins, Blackcurrant Syrup 4 jars, Carrots 8 tins, Cherry Syrup 174
jars. Chicken 104 tins, Condensed Milk 1 tin, Corned Beef 75 tins, Corned
Mutton 4 tins, Cream 1 tin, Creamed Rice 116 tins, Cucumbers 617 jars, 303
cartons, 477 barrels, Evaporated Milk 11 tins, Frankfurters 105 tins, Fruit
Cocktail 3 tins, Fruit tinned 459 tins, Gherkins 140 jars, Goulash 55 cans,
Ham 7 cwt 3 ars 14 lb 5 oz. Ham tinned 36 tins, Herring Roes 10 tins,
Horseradish Sauce 3 tubes. Hot Dog Sausages 1 lb 4 oz, Irish Stew 1 tin.
Jellied Veal 13 tins, Jam 936 jars, Liver Paste 2 lb 4 oz, Liver Sausage
61 cwt 1 qr 27 lb 13 oz, Luncheon Meat 53 tins, Minced Steak 39 tins,
Mincemeat 21 lbs, Mixed Salad 19 jars. Mustard 3s" oz, Ox Liver 1 cwt 2 qrs
17 lb 8 oz, Ox Tongue 25 tins, Paprika 62 tins, Pate Truffle 2 lb 7s" oz.
Peas garden 3 tins, Peas processed 8 tins. Pigs Liver 24 lbs, Pilchards 7 tins,
Pineapples 20 tins, Pineapple Juice 1 tin, Plums 434 tins, 75 cwt 3 qrs 9 lbs
4oz, Pork 1 cwt 0 qrs 18 lbs 4 oz, Pork Brawn 6 tins, Pork Kidneys 8 tins,
Potato Salad 2 lbs, Prunes 31 lbs 8 oz, Rabbits Chinese 45 lbs, Raspberry
Syrup 61 jars, Salmon 11 tins, Sardines 4 tins, Sauerkraut 1O48 jars,
74 barrels Sausage Rolls 4, Spaghetti 10 tins, Spam 2 tins, Sprats 10½ oz,
Steak & Kidney Pie 15s oz, Stewed Steak 14 tins, Stuffed Cabbage 60 jars,
Tomatoes 600 grms, 293 tins. Tomato Ketchup 13 oz, Tomato Paste 121 tins,
96 tubes, Tomato Puree 6 lbs, Tripes 25 jars.
Pharmacy & Poisons Act, 1933
Thirty one licences under the above Act were renewed during the year.
Regular observations and routine visits were made to shops and stalls
for unauthorised sellers.
Pharmacy & Medicines Act, 1941.
Observations were kept in connection with the requirements under the
above Act but no contraventions were noted during the year.