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Skin and bristle in pork brawn.
Earwig in packet of kippers.
Unsound cheese (2).
Unsound sausages*.
Unsound fried scampi.
Low meat content of sausage rolls.
Low meat content of cornish pasties.
Lump in lambs' liver.
Sore on shoulder of lamb.
Dirty salad cream bottle.
Dirty orange juice bottles (2).
Misdescription of sausage meat.
Misdescription of maple syrup.
Misdescription of chicken casserole.
Misdescription of mustard oil.
Misdescription of salmon spread.
Smell from can of baby food.
Smell from sausage meat.
Sour cream.
Stale and sour doughnuts.
Rancid fat in puff pastry mix*.
Discoloured corned beef.
Decomposed can of meat (2).
Contaminated canned tomatoes (2).
Contaminated saveloy.
Contaminated brussels sprouts.
Contaminated canned pineapple
Contaminated orange drink.
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 1970, 262 samples were submitted, of which
139 were formal samples, and 123 informal. The Public Analyst reported
that of these samples 247 were found to be genuine, and to
comply with the relevant Acts, Orders and Regulations, and 15
did not so comply. A full list of genuine samples is not given in this
report, but they are included in the Quarterly Returns made to the
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foods, and details are available.
I am, however, setting out particulars of non-genuine samples and the
action taken in connection with them.
Particulars of non-genuine samples and action taken.
Onion Sauce Mix.
This sample was an incomplete sauce mix requiring the addition
of milk to make the sauce. The necessity to add milk was
not stated on the label. Stocks were withdrawn and the production
of the article was discontinued.
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