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Smell from fruit pie.
Fungus in bottle of soft drink (2).
Bitter bottle of soft drink.
Bitter taste to scotch beef.
Strong flavoured cheese.
Tainted milk and fruit pudding.
Sausage deficient in meat.
Staple in cooked ham.
Nail in pickle.
Nail in cake.
Metal in pork pie*.
Metal in baby food.
Metal in cheese*.
Wire in biscuits.
Wire in fruit bun.
Blown can of baked beans.
Watered whisky.
Glass in hazelnut spread.
Glass granules around bottle neck.
Glass in doughnut.
Glass in tomato ketchup*.
Crystals in canned salmon.
Chicken curry not containing chicken.
Match in iced cake.
Bristle in cream cracker.
Wood in canned blackberries*.
Wood in marmalade.
Dirt on cheese.
Dirty bottle of medicine.
Foreign matter in can of cheese savoury.
Oily taste to corned beef.
Twine in can of blackberries.
Fermenting yoghurt*.
It will be observed that many of these complaints referred to
mould growths on food and unsound and sour foods. The Public
Health Inspectors Association have been pressing the Government for
some time to produce legislation that would provide either for date
stamping of perishable foods or, at any rate, a uniform coding that
would be easily recognised by all shop keepers. Pressure for a change
in the legislation is building up from a number of sources. The
housewives today would appear to be becoming more vigilant and the
women's organisations in this country are also taking this matter up
with the Government. It is to be hoped that in the not too distant
future there will be legislation covering this point.
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.
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