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SECTION E. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938
Three prosecutions were made during the year. These were in
respect of a cigarette end in a loaf of bread and two for mould in
meat pies. In each case the fine was £5.
The Public Health Committee decided to write to a dairy firm
where they received a report that solid matter was found in a bottle
of milk.
The meat content of the samples of pork sausages varied between
65 per cent and 80 per cent.
The sample of oranges was free from thiourea.
Seven ice lollies showed a lead content not exceeding 1 p.p.m.
A list of food samples is given below:
Brandy 2 Honey 1
Gin 3 Ice Cream 5
Rum 2 Ice Lollies 7
Whisky 9 Lard 3
Bacon 4 Lemon Juice 2
Beef Dripping 1 Milk 12
Butter 11 Mixed Peel 1
Butter Almonds 1 Mixed Spice 1
Butter Mints 1 Muscatels 1
Buttered Walnuts 1 Oranges 1
Candied Peel 1 Plum Jam 1
Coffee 3 Pork Sausages 7
Corned Beef 1 Preserved Ginger 1
Cream 1 Raisins 1
Currants 2 Spanish Black Figs 1
Curry Powder 1 Steak Pies 1
Dates 1 Stuffed Pork 1
Double Cream 1 Sultanas 1
Dried Bananas 1 Tea 6
Dried Peaches 1 Ammoniated Tincture of
Figs 1Quinine 1
Fish Cakes 2 Boric Ointment 1
Flour 1 Camphorated Oil 1
Fruit Salad 1 Cod Liver Oil Emulsion 2
Ground Almonds 2 Glycerine 1
Ground Nutmeg 1 Liquorice Powder 1
Ham 1 Olive Oil 1
Cod Liver Oil 1
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Five samples of ice cream were submitted to the Public Analyses
to ascertain the fat content of the mixture. These samples contained
fat to the following extent:
13.2 per cent. 12.8 per cent. 11.1 per cent.
12.9 per cent. 9.6 per cent.
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