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Chocolate Layer Cake.
This cake contained not more than 0.2% of dry fat free cocoa butter
instead of 3%. The vendors admitted that the cake was wrongly labelled
and their undertaking in future to describe it as "Layer Cake" was accepted.
Pork Luncheon Meat (5 samples).
The first of these samples was found to contain 64% of meat including
fat and in the opinion of the Analyst was much too low to warrant the
designation "Pork Luncheon Meat." The importers of this foreign product
stated that although there was no statutory standard for meat content,
they had arranged with the packers to increase the meat content to 70%
and to delete the word "Pork" from the label. Four other samples of
Pork Luncheon Meat were secured, a further one from the same importer
and three of different brand from the first for comparison. These shewed
meat contents of 67%, 77%, 76% and 72%. It was felt that in the absence
of a legal standard, these foreign imports appeared likely generally to
reduce the existing standard of this commodity and representations were
made to the Urban District Council's Association and to the Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food urging that a statutory standard should be
prescribed for this product. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry,
subsequently indicated in Parliament in answer to a question, that the Food
Standards Committee will in due course be asked to consider and advise
about the composition of canned meats.
Raspberry (Flavoured) Bar.
This was a bar of confectionery containing pieces of cardboard in the
substance of the bar. The manufacturers stated that this was the result of
cutting the bars on a cardboard base. They thereafter substituted a plastic
board to prevent further complaints and no further action was taken.
Section 9—Sale of Unfit Food for Human Consumption
The following complaints were received of alleged foreign matter in
foodstuffs:—
Foreign matter in Bread (3)
Vegetable Oil in Bread
Glass in Bread Roll
Maggots in Chocolate
Foreign matter in milk
Glass in milk
Maggots in Mushroom Soup Powder
Poppy Seed in Peas
Mould on Pork Pie
Pan Scale in Salt
Pieces of Cardboard in Sweet
Appropriate warnings were given where necessary.
Inspection of Food
The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or
unwholesome and unfit for human food were surrendered and destroyed
or so disposed of as to prevent them from being used for human food:—
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