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Cooking Salt.
Dark grey foreign matter in two layers in a block of salt found
to consist of a compacted mass of calcium and sodium salts.
Not an uncommon contaminant of lump salt.
Manufacturers advised.
Cream Slice.
Foreign matter embedded in the jam layer consisted of shreds
of tobacco baked in the slice.
Warning letter to bakers.
Fruit Scone.
Dried fruit tissue mixed with wheat flour formed a hard pellet.
Informal action taken.
Lemonade.
Opened bottle containing foreign particles and coloured deposit
found to be algae.
Informal action taken.
Marshmallow Pastry.
Alleged insect found to consist of jute fibres twisted together,
partly covered with marshmallow.
Informal action taken.
Meringues.
Pellets of black foreign matter present in the meringue mixture,
found to consist of flour and egg white rubbed up with
dirt to produce black pellets. They were baked in the
meringues.
Warning letter to bakers.
Milk.
Amorphous foreign matter having characteristics of a bird
dropping.
Informal action taken.
Other Legal Proceedings.
Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959—Article 27.
Two cases of dirty one pint milk bottles being used for delivery
of milk.
Defendants pleaded guilty. Fined £10 each case. Costs £3 3s.
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960—Regulation 9.
Smoking in food room in which there was open food.
Defendants pleaded guilty. Fined £10. Costs £5 5s.
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960.
Condition of premises and other matters.
Fined £25. Costs £5 5s.
Public Health Act, 1936—Section 107.
Appeal against consent of Local Authority for the establishment
of an offensive trade (fat rendering) for a period of
two years.
Appeal upheld.
Period extended to three years.
Application for costs refused.
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