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SUMMARY OF PUBLIC ANALYST'S QUARTERLY REPORTS
for the year 1960.
The following is a summary of the reports submitted each quarter of
the year, in compliance with Section 99 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955,
by the Council's Public Analyst, Mr.D.F.H. Button, A.R.C.S., F.R.I.C., of
Southwark Health Services Department, Walworth Road, S .E.17. A copy of
each quarterly report is submitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food, in accordance with the sane section of the Act.
During the year, 454 samples were submitted for analysis, 61 of which
were purchased or taken formally and 393 informally.
The samples are classified as follows:-
14 Alcoholic Spirits
1 Arrowroot
1 Bacon
2 Baking Powder
1 Blackcurrant Syrup
1 Bread
24 Butter
1 Cheese Spread
9 Chewing Gun
1 Chilli Powder
2 Cocoa
4 Coffee & Coffee Beans
1 Condensed Milk
1 Cooking Fat
1 Cornflour
4 Cream
1 Creamed Coconut
1 Custard Powder
3 Curry Powder
1 Egg Rusks
3 Fish (canned)
1 Fish (smoked)
1 Baby Powder
1 Boracic Ointment
1 Castor Oil
1 Camphorated Oil
1 Chest Rub
1 Cold Cream
1 Cough Linctus
3 Cough Mixtures
5 Fish Paste
1 Flavouring Essence
2 Flour
1 Fruit (canned)
25 Fruit (dried)
8 Fruit Drinks
3 Fruit Juice
6 Fruit Squashes
1 Gelatine
1 Ground Alnonds
1 Gun Mastic
1 Herbs, Mixed.
2 Honey
2 Horseradish Relish
1 "Laskshmi", canned.
1 Lemonade Crystals
12 Margarine
1 Mayonnaise
4 Meat (canned)
2 Meat (chopped)
2 Meat Paste
3 Meat Pies
1 Dequadin Lozenges
2 Digestive Tablets
3 Epson Salts
1 Gargle
2 Glycerine
1 Laxative Elixir
1 Liquid Paraffin
3 Olive Oil.
1 Meat Pudding(canned)
74 Milk
1 Milk Bread
1 Mixed Spice
3 Non-brewed Condiment
3 Oranges
1 Paprika
1 Parsley, dried.
1 Pepper
1 Pickles
1 Pickling Spice
3 Sauces
10 Sausages
1 Soup
13 Soups (canned)
2 Soup Powders
1 Soup Tablets
5 Sugar Confectionery
132 Tea
1 Tomato Paste
1 Tomato Puree
1 Vinegar
1 Potassium Chlorate
1 Rosehip Syrup
1 Slimming Aid
1 Sorell Syrup
1 Syrup of Figs
1 Sedative Tablets
2 Tincture of Iodine
1 Yeast & Sulphur
Tablets.
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