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FOOD INSPECTION
The total amount of foodstuffs seized and condemned for human consumption and either
reconditioned or disposed of for animal feeding or for technical or industrial purposes under
guarantee or destroyed was 3,010 tons 18 cwts. 1 qr. 10 lbs. The following is a summary showing

Of the 3,010 tons listed above, the principal items and methods of disposal were as follows:
Burnt
1,260 cartons and cases and approximately 17,490 cans fruits, juices, pulps, vegetables,
meats and fish (burst, blown, leaky, crushed and pierced) 71 cartons various fats (crushed, wet
damaged, dock water damaged, rancid and dirty), a quantity of ships' rejected stores meat, 28
cartons chocolate wafers (rancid and old stock) 19 bags rice (acid damaged) 50 packages melons,
18 packages grapefruits, 4 packages apples, 2 packages limes, 1552 packages onions, 124
packages oranges, 150 packages Brazil nuts, 659 packages tomatoes, 272 packages garlic, 35
packages sultanas, 1120 packages potatoes ("wasty" and dirty), 4 lambs (dock water damaged),
32 cartons lemons (oil stained), 112 cartons dried apricots (damaged by D.D.T. powder), a quantity
of bananas ("wasty").
Boiling down
5 fores, 158 wethers, 4515 lambs, 219 ewes, 95 hinds, 114 bags livers, 4 ox crops, (dirty,
diseased, brinestained, dock water damaged, soft, dirty, iced and partially decomposed) 4 cartons
lard (dirty) 753 lamb sides (rodent damaged at port of loading).
Buried
933 tons "wasty" bananas and banana waste, 326 cartons and cases and 5245 cans fruits,
juices, pulps, vegetables, meats and fish (burst, blown and leaky), 31,790 half bags onions
("wasty") 11 barrels orange juice (rancid and fermented), 33 packages potatoes ("wasty"), 10
cartons apples (dock water damaged), 2 casks chutney (dirty).
t Animal feeding
32 bags dhall, 354 bags flour, 59 bags rice and a quantity of other ships' rejected stores
including 75 packages meat released to London Zoo, 123 bags wheatgerm (wet damaged), 789 bags
buttermilk powder (storm water damaged), 90 bags tapioca and 24 bags sago (damaged in fire on
board ship), 25 cases walnuts (moth infested), 621 half bags potatoes ("wasty"), 52 bags milk
powder (wet damaged), 49 bags groundnuts (stained).
t Refining
1,468 bags sugar sweepings and loose collected sugar (dirty).
t Manufacturing etc. purposes
1 barrel sheep casings (for test purposes), 48 casks plum pulp (excess preservative —
released for Jam making), 571 bags damaged tea and sweepings.
t Released to other districts
1 chest tea (wet damaged), 92 cartons lard (stained cartons) 141 bags rejected stores rice
(for cleaning), 23 cases almonds (moth infested), 550 cartons canned fish (for sorting), 7 cases
47 tins tomatoes (for use in catering trade), 74 cartons butter (damaged), 1 bag flour (dirty), 280
bags onions ("wasty"), 67 cases desiccated coconut (wet damaged), 159 boxes cheese (wet
damaged), 44 cartons Chinese hen egg albumen (Salmonella infected), 13,011 packages potatoes
("wasty" — for sdrting).
Re-exported
2 casks casings (no "official certificate").
Items marked t released with agreement and under supervision of local Medical Officers of Health.
IMPORTATION OF DISEASED LIVERS
The Meat (Staining and Sterilisation) Regulations, 1959
For many years the importation of animal livers in large quantities marked "for animal
feeding purposes" created a problem to which, in the absence of controlling legislation, there
appeared to be no answer.
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