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Margarine
0.3% excessive water. Letter of caution sent.
Subsequent sample proved satisfactory.
Dried Herbs.
Contained 2.5% excess of mineral matter. Letter of caution sent.
Milk
(Channel Island)
UNOFFICIAL
2.5% deficient in fat. Five unofficial and one official samples taken
subsequently proved satisfactory.
5% deficient in fat.
One official and one unofficial sample taken subsequently proved
satisfactory.
2.5% deficient in fat. One official and nine unofficial samples taken
subsequently proved satisfactory.
0.2% excessive water.
0.4% excessive water.
Butter
MEAT INSPECTION IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
(By Mr.H.E.Bywater, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Officer)

In addition to one calves pluck which was rejected for tuberculosis two other calves plucks
were rejected for pneumonia and pleurisy.
N.B. No attempt has been made to give actual figures or percentages of horses in which
rejection of small portions of the carcase or total or partial rejection of organs was
necessary, since this would give a totally incorrect impression of quality of the horse
flesh which was almost invariably of very good quality and free from any serious disease
conditions. The organ most commonly rejected was the liver, either totally or partially2
almost invariably this was due to parasitic invasion, most of the parasites being dead and
calcified.
The sheep and calves inspected were slaughtered in emergency as casualties and
those passed were subsequently taken over by the Ministry of Food.
It is of interest to record, that only four cases of tuberculosis have been noted
in over 100,000 horses slaughtered within the Borough during the last few years.
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