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Foods unfit for Human Consumption.

The tinned meat was from Brisbane, Australia. The
consignment consisted of 2,010 cases containing 32,124 tins.
I had these arranged in three classes, "bad" (the obviously
"blown" tins), the "doubtful" and "good." I had opened
for examination some of the "blown" tins, about 50 of the
"doubtful" and about 20 of the "good." All the apparently
"good" ones were found to be good on examination, and
about 10 per cent. of the "doubtful" were found to be bad.
I offered not to have any more opened if the Managers would
hand over to the Board all the "bad" and "doubtful" tins
for destruction This they consented to do, and 2,672 samples
of tinned meat were very satisfactorily destroyed by us in
the furnace at the Board's Wharf, only the bits of tin
remaining unconsumed.
Sale of Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts.
A summary of the samples that have been taken and
submitted to the Public Analyst, and the proceedings taken,
will be found in Table VI.