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(a) Selling a loaf of bread containing tobacco. The Bakers were
fined £20 .Os.Od and £5 .5S.0d costs and the actual offender
in the bakehouse was fined £5,0s0d.
(b) Selling a loaf of wrapped bread containing cigarette
tobacco - FINED £20.0s .0d.
(c) Selling a loaf of wholemeal bread containing a metal rivet
with matted fibres attached - FINED £20.0s.0d with £5.5s.0d
costs,,
SALE OR OTHERWISE OF FOOD UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
The following complaints were received and investigated
during the year and advice given regarding various types of
foodstuffs alleged to contain foreign matter.
Dirty milk bottles (3)
Splinter in loaf
Dirty wholemeal loaf
Unsound imported mutton
Mouldy loaf (3)
Larvae in loaf
Glass in bread
Mouldy cream cakes (2)
Sediment in milk bottle
Glass in homemade marmalade
Gramophone needle in cake
Cloth fibres in loaf
Wire in loaf
Moth infested chocolate (2)
Mouldy dried milk powder
Unfit mince meat
Drawing pin in bread.
The general circumstances did not warrant legal proceedings
being taken and each case was dealt with by appropriate warnings
being given where necessary.
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