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SUMMARY OF PUBLIC ANALYST'S QUARTERLY REPORTS
For the Year 1964
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 Service 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 same section of the Act.
During the year 515 samples were submitted for analysis, 29 of which
were purchased or taken formally and 486 informally. The samples are
classified as follows:-
12 Alcoholic Spirits
1 Anadin Tablets
2 Beer
1 Benylin Linctus
12 Bread
12 Butter
1 Butter Oil
4 Buttered Rolls
1 Camphorated Oil
2 Castor Oil
12 Cayenne Pepper
2 Chewing Gum
1 Chillie Powder
1 Chocolate Eclair
1 Chocolate Liqueur
1 Coconut Oil
1 Choledy 1 Tablets
7 Coffee
2 Coldrex Tablets
1 Cough Balsam
1 Cream, sterilised
2 Daprisal Tablets
1 Distaquaine Suspension
1 Epsom Salts
2 Ferrodic Tablets
1 Ferromyn Tablets
2 Fish, canned
2 Fish Paste
3 Flavoured Cereal
Preparations, canned
2 Flavoured Milk
1 Flavoured Syrup
4 Flour
4 Flour Confectionery
13 Fruit
23 Fruit, canned
3 Fruit Drinks
3 Fruit Squash
1 Ground Almonds
3 Groundnuts
28 Ice Cream
3 Ice Lollies
1 Indigestion Tablets
2 Invert Sugar
3 Lard
1 Lemon Curd
10 Margarino
2 Matzo Meal
4 Meat, canned
1 Meat, minced
1 Medicated Pastilles
38 Milk
3 Olive Oil
40 Pasteurised Egg
2 Piriton Tablets
1 Peppers in Brine
1 Rubbing Oil
2 Sauces
24 Sausages
1 Seconal Sodium Tablets
1 Shandy, canned
10 Smoked Salmon
2 Soup, canned
5 Sugar Confectionery
109 Tea
3 Tomatoes, canned
45