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Sausage Roll. A sausage roll -was found to be affected with mould when eaten.
The Public Health Committee considered all the circumstances and decided to
advise the manufacturer of their attitude should there be a further complaint.
Chocolate-coated Nuts. Evidence of an insect infestation was found in
chocolate-coated nuts and fruit. A microscopical examination failed to reveal
further evidence and the stock of the shop was inspected and found to be
satisfactory.
Bottle of Milk. A ball of wool was found in a bottle of milk, but the condition
of the milk in other respects was sound and the wool had passed through the
cleansing process. The Public Health Committee considered all the circumstances
and in this instance decided not to take proceedings.
Complaints concerning Italian canned tomatoes, swiss roll, a Christmas
pudding, a loaf with crumbs inside, a cracked milk bottle, fruit jelly, the
effect of cream on silverware, a chipped milk bottle, a mouldy loaf which was
not brought to the department for many days, stewed lamb, cloudy calf's foot
jelly, grapes with an odour of fish, were among other investigations undertaken
by the Department.
ICE CREAM
Fifty-four samples were submitted to the methylene blue test.
The methylene blue test does not provide a guarantee of safety but
it does serve as a single and practical method of grading ice-cream according
to its degree of bacterial cleanliness and samples which consistently fail
to reach grades I or II give reasonable grounds to indicate defects in
manufacture or handling requiring further investigation. The certificate
giving the results of testing has the following note appended:
"Owing to the numerous factors governing the hygienic quality of ice-cream
it is unwise to pay too much attention to the bacteriological results of any
single sample. Judgement should be based rather on a series of samples.
It is suggested over a six monthly period 50 per cent of vendors samples should
fall into grade 1, 80 per cent into grades 1 or 11, not more than 20 per cent
into grade III and none into grade IV".
The following table shows the results of samples taken since
1947s-