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APPENDIX 26 (continued)
Uncut loaf (informal). — Contained insect. Legal proceedings were taken
and the bakers were fined £5, plus £3.3s.0d. costs.
Loaf of bread (informal). — Contained piece of metal. Legal proceedings
were taken and the bakers were fined £5 pins £3.3s.0d. costs.
Hamburgers (formal). — Contained only 59 per cent meat. A letter of warning
was sent to the butcher concerned.
Cola and Rum (formal). — Proportion of rum low (Alcohol (proof spirit) 1.5
per cent) Representations to manufacturers as a result of which more appropriate
labels are to be used in future.
Ostermilk Two (informal). — Had poor solubility which resulted in considerable
separation in the reconstituted milk. A letter was sent to the manufacturers.
Bread (informal). — Contained blackish foreign matter found to be piece of
dried fruit. No action taken.
Biscuit (informal). — Contained rubber composition. Legal proceedings
against manufacturers pending.
Meat pie (informal). — Contained tuft of black hair of bovine origin. Legal
proceedings were taken against the manufacturers who were fined £5 plus 12
costs.
Jam Doughnut (informal). — Contained stub of small cigar and miscellaneous
vegetable fibre and silicious matter or sand. Legal proceedings were taken and
the retailer was fined £6 plus £5.5s.0d. costs.
Dripping (informal). — Contained fragments of fly. Legal proceedings were
taken and the manufacturers were fined £2, plus £2 costs.
Corned beef (informal). — Some slight black staining with some evidence of
rusting in opened can, but meat satisfactorily free from metallic contamination.
No action.