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Unsound Food, etc. - Complaints
Complaints made by members of the public as to alleged unsound
condition, etc. of foods, and which were investigated during the year,
numbered 51. The complaints referred to:-
Alleged unsound condition;
Bacon 1, beer 1, bread 5, broad pudding 1, cakes 2, chicken 1,
chestnuts 1, chocolate eclair 1, cucumber 1, confectionery 2,
egg-pie meal 1,meat 3, meat pie 2, milk 2, mincemeat 1, pork
luncheon meat 1, porridge oats 1, runner beans 1, salmon (canned) 1,
sausages 1, sausage roll 1, Yoghourt 1.
Alleged dirty condition and/or foreign body or deposit:
Baby food 1, bread 6, calces 2, confectionery 1, chocolate drink 1,
chocolate nuts 1, corned beef 1, cucumber 1, fruit pie 1, rusks 1,
salmon (canned) 1.
Not of nature or substance demanded:
Steak 2.
Zeebrugge-Harwich Train Ferry
During the year 231 night or early morning visits and 112 other visit;
were made to Bishopsgate Goods Station (which was destroyed by fire on
Saturday, 5th December, 1964) for the purpose of examining 4,505 trucks
of foodstuffs arriving from the following countries:-
Argentine 1 trucks Italy 2,087 trucks
Austria 2 " Roumania 177 "
Belgium 205 " Spain 1 "
Congo 2 " Sweden 75 "
Denmark 26 " Switzerland 8 "
France 2 " Turkey 2 "
Germany 12 " Yugoslavia 1,475 "
Hungary 430 "
The weight of the foodstuffs examined was 45,004 tons comprising:
22,842 tons fresh fruit and vegetables; 5,003 tons chilled and frozen meat
and offals; 9,222 tons canned meats and sausages, etc.; 2,984 tons bacon;
813 tons preserved fruits and vegetables; 3,132 tons butter, cheese and
eggs; 101 tons biscuits and confectionery; 19 tons beef and pork lungs
and hog casings; 15 tons pea flour; 71 tons nut kernols; 760 tons crisp
bread; 18 tons frozen poultry; 21 tons frozen skinned rabbits; 3 tons
frozen ox hearts.
Foodstuffs found to be unsound, and which were stopped and destroyed,
amounted to 33 cwts.
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