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APPENDIX 30 (continued).
UNSATISFACTORY SAMPLES
(a) Bread roll (informal). — Contained foreign matter in form of dirty dough,
insect web and traces of iron. Legal proceedings were taken.
(b) French Cream Slices (formal). — Consisted not of cream but artificial
cream. Warning letter sent to vendors.
(c) Orange Nectar (formal). — Contained excessive metallic contamination.
Warning letter sent to retailer.
(d) Puff cracknell (formal). — Claimed to aid slimming but no statement to
comply with Bread and Flour Regulations, 1963 that to do so must form part of
controlled diet. Warning letter sent to the retailers.
(e) Bread (informal). — Contained fragments of metallic foreign matter
consisting of an alloy, mainly lead. Legal proceedings were taken and the
bakers fined £10 and £2.2s. costs.
(f) Milk (informal). — Contained numerous insect papae. Legal proceedings
were taken and the retailers were fined £20 and £10.10s. costs.
(g) Corned beef (informal). — Contained part of a fly. Legal proceedings
were taken and the manufacturers were fined £5.5s. and £3.18s. analysts fees.
(h) Root liquorice (informal). — Contained mould growth. Local stock
surrendered by retailer and local authority of district where goods prepared and
packed advised.
(i) Milk (informal). — Contained a deposit of milk solids. Letter sent to
retailers.
(j) Milk (informal). — Contained mould growth. Legal proceedings were
taken and a fine of £10 and £2.2s. costs was imposed on the retailers.
(k) Corned beef (informal). — Contained piece of zinc oxide plaster.
Referred to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food who made representations
to South African Embassy as beef manufactured in South Africa.
(l) Liqueur Chocolates (informal). — Contained larva of date moth. Legal
proceedings were taken and fines of £5 on each of two summonses were
imposed and £5.5s. costs.
(m) Sliced press ham (informal). — Contained a flake of paint. Legal proceedings
were taken but the firm concerned was granted an absolute discharge
on payment of £10.10s. costs and £9.3s. analysts fees.