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The number of complaints received during the year regarding
unsound food was 289. These included references to extraneous
matter in food and a detailed investigation was made in each case.
Informal action was taken in the majority of cases, but certain of the
items marked * in the following list were the subject of legal proceedings.
Foreign bodies found in bread—mould growth on wrapped
bread *(4); stale dough baked in loaf (3); glass in bread
*(2); grease and carbon (2); metal; wire*; rubber band*;
insect; jute fibres; brown mark through loaf.
Glass fragments in botdes of milk (3)*.
Tea leaves in botde of milk.
Machine oil in bottle of milk.
Blade of grass in botde of milk.
Foreign matter in bottles of milk (3)**.
Unusual smell or taste of milk (2).
Alleged stale milk.
Dirty milk botdes (15)******.
Mouldy pork briskies*.
Mouldy chicken briskies*.
Mouldy sausages*.
Mouldy cereals (2).
Mouldy double cream.
Mouldy pork pie.
Mouldy cheese savoury.
Moud in can of baby food.
Mould growth on Scotch eggs.
Mould growth in can of chicken Capri.
Glass in stewed steak dinner.
Glass in can of red salmon.
Nail in box of dates.
Screw in bar of nougat.
Tainted can of pineapple pieces.
Tainted cake.
Worm in rumpsteak.
Ants in fruit pie.
Fly in veal and ham pie.
Fly in shepherds' pie.
Insects in packet of milk food powder.
Insect in canned pineapple.
Insect in rice.
Insect in cheese.
Blowfly eggs on pork sausages.
Maggots in leg of lamb.
Abscess in leg of lamb.
Cigarette end in sausage meat.
Cigarette end in fruit pie.
Holed can of corned beef.
Brown substance in can of corned beef.
Foreign matter in packet of breakfast cereal.
Metal in packet of breakfast cereal.
Metal in can of peas.
Metal in canned sponge pudding.
Pin in sausage.
Sour pork sausages.
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