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Unsound beef and pork sausages.
Pebble in can of baked beans.
Leaking can of herring fillets.
Cardboard in Madeira cake.
Discoloured chocolates.
Larvae in nut chocolate sweets.
Caterpillar in Swiss roll.
Pearl in dried milk powder.
Unsound frozen fish fingers.
Bristle in Gouda cheese.
Yellow colouring in cauliflower.
By arrangement with other local authorities, complaints concerning
dirty milk bottles which are received by them are referred to me when
the bottle has been found to have been filled at one of the establishments
within the London Borough of Merton. After investigation
(and after report has been made to the Health Committee when necessary)
the facts are notified to the local authority concerned.
Sampling of Food and Drugs.
Samples of food and drugs were sent to the Public Analyst, Messrs.
Moir & Palgrave, 16 Southwark Street, S.E.I, for examination and
report.
During the year 1968, 426 samples were submitted of which
240 were formal samples and 186 informal. The Public Analyst reported
that of these samples 405 were found to be genuine and to
comply with the relevant Acts, Orders and Regulations, and that 21
did not so comply.
Particulars of genuine samples.
Alka Seltzer tablets 1
American lard 1
Apple filling 1
Apple and strawberry jam 1
Apricot jam—whole fruit 1
Apricot sauce 1
Asparagus soup—
condensed 1
Aspirin tablets B.P. 1
Baked beans in tomato
sauce 6
Beef curry with rice 1
Beef steak in gravy 1
Beef suet—shredded 1
Birchermuesli 1
Biscuits 17
Blackberries in heavy
syrup 1
Black cherries in heavy
syrup 1
Black cherry jam 1
Blackcurrant and apple
pie 1
Blackcurrant cordial 1
Blackcurrant health drink
(Vitamin C) 1
Blackcurrant jam 3
Blackcurrant juice syrup 1
Brandy 1
Bread loaf 2
Bread loaf—low starch 1
Broad beans 1
Bronchial mixture 1
Brussell sprouts 1
Butter 13
Butter beans 1
Butermilk—cultured
drink 1
Butered toast 1
Cake fruit mixture 1
Canadian clover honey 1
Carrots—whole 3
Cheese—Full fat soft 1
Cheese—English
Wensleydale 1
Cheese spread 2
Cheese spread with
mushroom 1
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