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Offences other than Adulteration.—Milk.—For filling milk bottles other
than on registered premises one vendor was fined £3 with £2 2s. Od. costs.
For the omission of the name and address on the can, etc., two vendors
were fined £2 and £1 Is. 0d. costs and £1 respectively.
The unregistered vendor of adulterated samples B 507, B 508 and B 509
was fined £5 with £7 7s. 0d. costs and was also fined £1 for obstruction.
One vendor who was not registered paid £1 Is. Od. costs.
Cream.— 3 unregistered vendors were fined £2 with £2 2s. 0d. costs, £1
with £1 Is. Od. costs and £2 with £2 2s. 0d. costs respectively.
Margarine.— The vendor of adulterated sample B 704 was fined £10 with
£3 3s. Od. costs as the factory was not registered and £10 with £3 3s. 0d. costs
for not complying with the labelling regulations.
Minced Meat.— The vendor of adulterated sample A 73 was fined £2 with
£2 2s. Od. costs for obstruction.
Miscellaneous Samples.— 162 miscellaneous samples were submitted for
analysis. These include 6 cowshed samples. Of the remaining 156 samples,
134 were foods, and of these, 20 or 14.9 per cent, were unsatisfactory.
Public Health Department.— 141 samples submitted by the Public Health
Department comprised the following:—
Metallic Contamination. 59 samples were examined and of these 16
were unsatisfactory.
Satisfactory samples were:— Tinned Brisling (13), Tinned Sild (13),
Tinned Pineapple (3), Tinned Fish (3), Tinned Herrings (2), Tinned
Salmon (2), Tinned Vegetable Mayonnaise (2), Tinned Anchovies (1),
Tinned Silver Fish (1), Tinned Sardines (1), Tinned Potato Salad (1) and
Tinned Jellied Pork (1). All the above were examined for tin.
Unsatisfactory samples were Tinned Brisling (7) (contained 2.2,
3.9, 2.5, 4.1, 2.6, 3.1 and 2.8 grains tin per pound respectively); Tinned
Shrimps (3) (contained 3.9, 2.9 and 4.5 grains tin per pound respectively);
Tinned Sild (3) (contained 2.6, 5.2 and 2.8 grains tin per pound respectively);
Tinned Anchovies (2) (contained 3.9 and 3.7 grains tin per
pound respectively) and Tinned Plum Pudding (contained 3.0 grains tin
per pound.
Preservatives.— 58 samples were examined and of these 2 were
unsatisfactory.
Satisfactory samples were:— Raisins (16) and Sultanas (5); these
contained no preservative and Raisins (17), Sultanas (7) and Strawberry
Pulp (1); these contained preservative in amount less than the permitted
quantity. Smoked Salmon (8) and Salt (2) examined for formalin were
free from this preservative.
Unsatisfactory samples were:— Raisins (2), containing 870 and 850
parts sulphur dioxide per million respectively.
Fit for food.— 4 samples were examined with regard to their fitness
for human consumption. 2 samples of Condensed Milk and 1 sample
of Jam were satisfactory, 1 sample of Cream Cheese was unsatisfactory.