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(f) Buttered Rolls (formal).—Fat consisted not of butter but of
a mixture of margarine and butter, containing 45% butter. Legal
proceedings were taken and a fine of £1 was imposed.
(g) Cake (informal).—Contained foreign matter which was found
to consist of burnt or charred dough. No action was taken in this case.
(Ii) Grape fruit juice (formal).—Contained a small proportion of
water and was not undiluted grape fruit juice and sugar. A letter
of warning was sent to the manufacturers.
(0 Gin (formal):—Contained only 65 0% proof spirit, which
although in accord with Food and Drugs Act, was below declared
strength of 70%. A letter of warning was sent to the retailer.
0) Whisky (formal).—Contained only 66 5% proof spirit, which
although in accord with Food and Drugs Act, was below declared
strength of 70%. A letter of warning was sent to the retailer.
(k) Bread (informal).—Contained foreign matter which consisted
of dirty greasy dough and contained mineral oil. A letter of warning
was sent to the retailer.
(I) Bread (informal).—Contained foreign matter which consisted of
dirty dough including fibres, fine quartz sand, a rodent " hair " and
a fragment of glass. Legal proceedings were taken and the retailer
was fined £5 and £5 costs.
(m) Bread (informal).—Contained a decapitated fly and fragments
of appendages. A letter of warning was sent to the retailer.
(n) Pork sausages (formal).—Contained 260 parts per million of
sulphur dioxide (undeclared). A letter of warning was sent to the
retailer.
(o) Pork sausages (formal).—10% deficient in meat. A letter of
warning was sent to the retailer.
(iv) Hawkers of Food.
Section 103 of the Essex County Council Act, 1952, came into operation
on 2nd April, 1953, and provides that hawkers of any food, and
premises used for the storage of such food, shall be registered by the
local authority. Registration was granted to 4 persons during 1956. The
storage premises concerned were not in llford.
(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 llford Corporation Act, 1937, requires registration of
such premises.
1 application for registration was received, and granted, during 1956.
(vi) Articles of Food Surrendered.
During the year the following articles were surrendered and condemned
as being unfit for the food of man:—
Bacon, 152 lbs. 9 ozs.; Beverages, 20 tins, 12 bottles; Biscuits,
61 lbs. 9 ozs, 32 tins; Butter, 3½ lbs.; Cereals, 59 pkts.; Cheese, 24½ lbs.
78 pkts.; Cream, 74 tins; Eggs, 6 cases, 417 lbs. (frozen); Fats, 2 lbs.,
2 pkts.; Fish (Wet and Dry), 70 stones; Fish (Tinned), 175 tins; Fish
(Shell), 8 jars; Fish Paste, 7 jars; Flavouring, Colouring, etc. 3 bottles;
Flour, 1 lb.; Foods (Medical and Baby), 1 tin; Fruit (Tinned), 1,038 tins;
Fruit (Bottled), 60 lbs.; Fruit (Dried), 60 lbs.; Fruit Juice, 25 tins;
Jam, Preserves, etc. 70 tins; Meat (Fresh), 2.544 lbs. 12½ ozs.; Meat
(Tinned), 2,304 lbs. 5½ ozs.; Meat Pies, 2; Meat Paste, 5 jars; Milk
(Tinned), 509 tins; Pastry and Pudding Mixtures, 8 pkts.; Pickles, 14
jars; Potato Crisps, 7 tins; Poultry, 299 lbs. 11 ozs.; 17 tins, 72 chickens,
48 chicklets; Puddings, 4; Sauces, Salad Cream etc., 16 bottles, 1 jar;
Sausages, 6 tins, 104 lbs.; Soups, 144 tins; Sugar, 86 lbs.; Sweets, 4 lbs.,
80 bars Chocolate, 6 dozen Sweet Cigarettes, 2 dozen Wagon Wheels;
Tomatoes (Tinned), 377 tins; Tomato Juice, 27 tins; Vegetables (Tinned),
767 tins,