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Sample No. 93—Hot Milk.
Contained 20% of added water. The freezing point confirmed the presence
of added water.
Sample No. 94—Fruit Syrup (Lemon)
Contained only 5% lemon juice, whereas in my opinion a reasonable
minimum lemon juice content for fruit syrup is 25%.
Table 17.—Unsound Food
The following articles were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed
as being unfit for human consumption:—
Where quantities are insufficient for salvage all unsound food is collected
and disposed of at the Council's Refuse Destructor, by incineration.
Meat and Meal Products, etc.
Bacon lbs. 138
Beans and Pork lbs. 2
Beef lbs. 885 3/8
Beef Loaf lb. 3/4
Canned Meat lbs. 374
Lambs' Liver lbs. 10
Pigs' Kidney lbs. 16
Pigs' Liver lbs. 32
Sausage Meat lbs. 7 7/8
Sheeps' Hearts lbs. 11
Stewed Steak lbs. 4 7/8
Fish
Canned Fish lbs. 5 3/8
Cod lbs. 13½
Golden Cutlets lbs. 28
Haddock lbs. 3
Rock Salmon stones 6
Whiting stones 12
Fruit
Canned Fruit lbs. 248 5/8
Vegetables
Baked Beans lbs. 18½
Canned Tomatoes lbs. 49 1/8
Canned Vegetables lbs. 27½
Other Foods
Biscuits lbs. 3¾
Cereals lbs. 3
Cheese lbs. 184¾
Coffee lbs. 6 ¼
Cream lbs. 1 3/8
Jam lbs. 7¼
Liquid Frozen Egg lbs. 28
Macaroni lbs. 20¾
Marmalade lbs. 6
Milk pints 9¼
,, tins 6
Orange Juice lbs. l 1/8
Pastes, Fish lbs. 22½
Sauces lbs. 8
Soup lbs. 26
Spaghetti lbs. 2
Vitacup lb. ¾
Table 18.—Slaughter-houses.
The district does not now possess a slaughter-house.
No animals were slaughtered for food in this district during 1955.