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30.
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1949.
Graded Milks, The following table shows the licences granted
during the year for the sale of milk under the special designations,
as provided by the above Regulations:
5 dealers' licences to sell milk as Pasteurised.
12 dealers' licences to sell milk as Sterilised.
2 supplementary licences to sell milk as Pasteurised.
3 supplementary licences to sell milk as Sterilised.
5 dealers' licences to sell milk as Tuberculin Tested.
2 supplementary licences to sell milk as Tuberculin Tested.
1 supplementary licence to sell milk as Tuberculin Tested
(Pasteurised).
Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Food and. Drugs Authority.
The Council is the Food and Drugs Authority for the district
and during the year samples approximating in number to two per
thousand of the population were taken and submitted to the joint
Public Analysts,
Public Analyst.
Mr.George Taylor, F.R.I.C., 20, Eastcheap, London, E.C.3. and
Dr. J.H. Hamence, F.R.I.C. , 20, Eastcheap, London, E.C.3. continued
as joint Public Analysts for the area.
Samples Submitted, for Analysis.
Eighty-three samples of foods and drugs were submitted for
analysis, twenty-one formal and sixty-two informal and it will be
seen by the following table that a reasonably wide field was covered.
The table shows that in six instances samples were adversely
reported upon.
One sample of machine skimmed milk was submitted as a result
of a complaint of abnormal taste and smell. The milk was submitted
to a chemical and bacteriological examination which failed to disclose
any objectionable contamination or deterioration. The unusual odour
was, in the analyst's opinion, reminiscent of a lacquer which may have
been picked up during the canning process. The remaining stocks were
withdrawn from sale.