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(i) Gin (formal).—Contained 66.3% proof spirit and although in
accord with the Food and Drugs Act was deficient to the extent of
3'7% below the labelled 70%. No action was taken.
(j) and (k) Mustard (formal).—Deficient in allyl isothiocyanate to
the extent of 20% and 34% respectively. A letter of warning was
sent to the firm concerned.
(l) Sausage, unclassified (informal).—Contained a foreign body
found to be a papilla from the side or rear of tongue of ox or pig.
No action was taken.
(m) Loaf of bread and small piece of bread (informal).—The
small piece of bread contained a greyish black foreign body found to
consist of fatty discoloured dough. No action was taken.
(iv) Hawkers of Food.
Section 77 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937 provides for the
registration of Hawkers of meat. fish, fruit and vegetables and their storage
premises. Registration was granted to 20 persons (concerning 13 premises).
(v) Registration of Premises used for the Preparation or
Manufacture of Sausages, or Potted, Pressed, Pickled or Preserved
Meat, Fish or other Food Intended for Sale.
Section 80 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, requires registration of
such premises.
One application for registration was received, and granted, during 1952.
(vi) Articles of Food Surrendered.
During the year the following articles were surrendered and condemned
as being unfit for the food of man:—
Beverage—2 tins; Biscuits—80 lbs.; Butter—48 tins, 1½bs.; Cake
22½lbs., 276 Swiss Rolls; Cereals—37 pkts., 12 tins, 142 lbs.; Cheese—
102 lbs., 96 cartons, 7 portions; Coconut—60 lbs. 6 ozs.; Chocolate—
115 bars, 21 pkts.; Confectionery—459 lbs., 6 ozs,; Drugs and Medicines
20 bottles, 7 pkts., 2,900 tablets; Egg (Dried)—28 lbs.: Fats—986½ lbs.;
Fish (Wet and Dry)—121 st. 4½ lbs., 6 boxes; Fish (Tinned)—239 tins;
Fish (Shell)—5 galls., 9 lbs.; Fish Paste—9 jars; Flavouring, Colouring,
etc.—43 pkts., 4 jars, 72½ lbs.; Flour—6,539 lbs. 10 ozs.; Foods,
Medical and Baby—108 tins, 26 cartons, 47 bottles, 21 jars; Fruit
(Tinned)—2,760 tins; Fruit (Bottled)—23 bottles; Fruit (Dried)—
699 lbs.; Fruit Juice—50 tins, 81 bottles; Jam, Preserves, etc.—466 lbs.,
243 tins; Meat (Fresh)—5,124½ lbs.; Meat (Tinned)—4,462 lbs. 5½ ozs.;
Meat Pies—18; Milk (Tinned)—709 tins; Milk (Dried)—21 tins; Nuts
—290 lbs.; Pastry and Pudding Mixtures—5 pkts.; Pickles—16 jars,
8 tins; Poultry—32 lbs. 10 ozs., 9 tins; Puddings—18; Rabbits—75 lbs.;
Salt—1 tin; Sauces and Salad Cream—16 bottles; Sausages—38 tins,
265¼ lbs.; Spirits—3 bottles; Soups—169 tins; Sugar—287½ lbs.: Soft
Oil—112 lbs. 6 galls.; Vegetables (Fresh)—12 lbs.; Vegetables (Dried)
—53½ lbs.; Vegetables (Tinned)—1,193 tins; Yeast—2 lbs.
(vii) Articles of Food Seized.
Arising out of a complaint, visits were made to two shops of a firm
in the Borough when it was found that a quantity of shelled walnuts on
sale were infested with larvae, maggots and mice excrement. The nuts
were seized and submitted to a Justice of the Peace who ordered their condemnation.
Legal proceedings were subsequently taken and the firm was fined a
total of £40, plus £5 5s. 0d. costs.