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with £2.2.0d. costs; a pencil in a loaf of bread - fined £5 with
£1.1.0d. costs; plastic in a loaf of bread - fined £5 with £l.l.0d.
costs; Dirty milk bottle - fined £5 with £2.2.0d. costs.
Warning letters were sent to the manufacturers in respect of
complaints of a wood screw in peanuts and of metal in a mincemeat
pie.
UNSOUND FOOD: EXAMINATION OF FOOD SUSPECTED OF BEING UNSOUND
The routine examination of food suspected of being unsound was
continued throughout the year. The co-operation of the food traders
is, of course, very important in this matter, and numerous requests
are received from traders for an inspection of suspected foodstuffs.
If found to be unfit the food is voluntarily surrendered and
Condemnation Certificates issued.
Altogether, 30,085 articles of food, weighing approximately 64
tons were condemned as unfit during the year, the majority of these
articles, weighing approximately 50 tons, being from the large
Abattoir in the Borough.
FOOD SAMPLING, 1956
During the year ended 31st December, 1956, 618 samples of food
and drugs (i.e. 407 informal and 211 formal samples) were submitted
for analysis to the Public Analyst. Of these, seven formal and 18
informal samples were reported to be adulterated or otherwise not
complying with the statutory requirements, giving a percentage of
4.0 compared with 5.0 in 1955 and 3.8 in 1954. No private samples
were examined during the year.
The following table gives details of the adulterated samples:-