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Milk.
Sample contained 1.40% milk fat as against the 3% requirement
of the Sale of Milk Regulations, 1939.
Deficiency 53%.
Vendor prosecuted. Pleaded guilty. Fined £15. Costs £5 5s.
Hot Milk.
5% deficiency in milk solids. 8.04% against 8.5%.
Investigations at vendor's premises and bottling plant showed
no reason for deficiency.
Babies' Milk Powder.
Labelled ' The nearest approach to Mother's Milk'.
Vegetable fat or oil—not milk fat.
Misleading. Correspondence with manufacturers to amend
label.
Nuts.
Common or usual name of the article and the ingredients not
included on label. (Labelling of Food Order, 1953.)
Packed by importers. Verbal warning.
Beef Sausages.
Contained preservative. No notice displayed. Letter to butcher.
Pork Sausages.
Contained preservative. No notice displayed. Letter to butcher.
Creamed Smatana.
Cultured milk enriched with milk fat.
Ingredients not specified on label.
Informal action taken to amend label.
Strawberries in Heavy Syrup.
Imported from Holland. Syrup density below normal.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food informed.
Tongue and Turkey Roll.
Contravention of Labelling of Food Order, 1953.
Two ingredients specified on label generic and another ingredient
not adequately described.
Label amended.
Malt Vinegar.
Sample of non-brewed condiment sold as vinegar.
Written warning sent to vendor.
Bread.
Sliced white loaf.
Black pellet of foreign matter consisting of cotton fibres, wheat
flour and miscellaneous dirt baked in the bread.
Informal action taken.
Bread.
White loaf containing poppy seeds baked in the bread (was
alleged to be contaminated with mouse excreta).
Informal action taken.
Bread.
Sliced white loaf containing small pieces of brown foreign
matter found to consist of a mixture of wheat bran and wheat
flour.
Informal action taken.
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