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likely to be under what one might call 'average conditions of
carelessness!'"
After consultation with an Officer of the Ministry of Health,
I wrote to three firms who are actual packers of this article and
steps were at once taken to withdraw packages, distributed to
retailers, for re-sifting.
The following is a detailed list of the articles sampled:—
Ale 1
Ammoniated Tincture of
Quinine 5
Butter 48
Brawn 2
Bread 1
Breakfast Sausage 1
Blancmange Powder 1
Baking Powder 1
Butter and Margarine
Mixture 1
Chicken and Ham Roll 2
Cocoa 10
Custard Powder 3
Cheese 2
Coffee 8
Carbolic 1
Cake ("Tottenham") 1
Chutney 1
Castor Oil 1
Coffee and Chicory
Extract 1
Cream 11
Creamy Bon-Bons 1
Cream of Tartar 2
Cocoanut Ice 2
Curry Powder 1
Camphorated Oil 3
Chelsea Buns 1
Cascara Sagrada 1
Christmas Pudding 1
Dripping 6
Dill Water 1
Desiccated Soup Powder 1
Egg Substitute 1
Essence of Ginger
Wine 1
Fish Pastes 4
Flour 1
Ground Rice 1
Ground Almonds 2
Ground Ginger 1
Ground Nutmegs 2
Honey 1
Ice Cream 2
Jam 3
Lard 24
Lime Water 2
Lemonade Powder 1
Luncheon Sausage 1
Lemon Curd 2
Lemon Squash 1
Milk 145
Minced Beef 6
Margarine 18
Mustard 1
Meat Paste 2
Minced Meat 2
Marzipan Roll 1
Mixed Herbs 6
Peas 6
Pepper 7
Preserved Parisian
Sausages 1
Rum 1
Rice 5
Russian Roll 1
Sponge Fingers and
Cakes 5
Sausages 12
Sweet Spirit of Nitre 2
Sauce 3
Sauce (Fruit) 1
Syrup of Figs 2
Shortbread 1
Sugar 1
Sugar (Demerara) 1
Sugar (Pudding) 1
Scone 2
Suet 2
Tea 6
Toffee 1
Tripe 1
Vinegar 4
Veal and Ham 1
Wholemeal Flour 1
Whisky 9
Total 430