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Unsound Food. &c. - Complaints
Complaints made by members of the public as to alleged unsound
condition, etc., of food, and which were investigated during the year,
numbered 28. The complaints referred to the following
Alleged unsound condition.
Bacon 1, bread rolls 3, carrots 1, cheese toasties 1,
cream soda 1, faggots 1, meat 1, peanuts 1, scampi 1, scones 1.
Alleged dirty condition and/or foreign body or deposit.
Biscuits 1, bread and rolls 5, cheesecake 1, currants 1,
doughnuts 1, lemonade 1, milk 1, minced meat 1, salami 1,
saveloys 1, sausage rolls 1.
Alleged adulteration.
Milk 1.
Zeebrugge-Harwich Train Ferry
284 midnight or early morning visits and 166 other visits were made
to Bishopsgate Goods Station for the purpose of examining 8,718 trucks of
foodstuffs arriving from the following countries
Austria 4 Trucks. Holland 5 Trucks.
Belgium 397 " Hungary 425 "
Bulgaria 40 " Italy 4346 "
Channel Islands 1 " Roumania 65 "
Congo 19 " Spain 1 "
Denmark 15 " Sweden 7 "
France 1 " Switzerland 17
Germany 20 " Yugoslavia 3335 "
Greece 20 "
The weight of the foodstuffs examined was 78,730 tons, comprising
42,592 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables, 16,457 tons chilled and
frozen meat and offals, 11,396 tons preserved meats and sausages, etc.,
5,411 tons bacon, 1,972 tons butter, 126 tons confectionery, 261 tons
preserved fruits and vegetables, 121 tons eggs, 194 tons horsemeat,
90 tons cheese, and 110 tons miscellaneous foodstuffs.
Foodstuffs found to be unsound, and which were stopped and destroyed,
amounted to 17 cwts.
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