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Articles of Food (continued)
Sausages
Meat Extracts
Pickles and Sauces
Ground Ginger
Carraways
Allspice
Cinnamon
Cassia
Mace and Nutmegs
Candied Peel
Olive Oil
Aerated Waters
British and other Wines
Beer
Rum, Gin and Brandy
Drugs (continued).
Saffron
Mercury with Chalk
Solution of Perchloride of Iror
Jalap
Glycerine
Fluid Magnesia
Fowler's Solution
Compound Liquorice Powder
Liquorice
Acetic Acid
Castor Oil
Coca Wine
Another article, which might possibly receive attention, is beeswax,
adulteration of which, with paraffin wax, on an extensive scale, is especial
referred to in the recently-issued report from the Select Committee on For
Products Adulteration.
Milk and Butter.—On reference to Tables I. and II., it will be s???
that more samples of milk were obtained for analysis than of all the rest,
the articles together, and that of the (04 samples of milk analysed, twe???
only were returned as adulterated; that is to say, 11*5 per cent, of 1
number. When it is recalled that the corresponding percentages for 1893-1
and 1894-95, were 217 and 297, a great and important improvemt
becomes manifest. Nevertheless, though the proportion of adulterat
samples diminished so materially in the year to which this report refers, to
nature and extent of the sophistications observed, cannot but be regarded
very serious. Seven of the twelve adulterated samples had been deprived
fat, the percentages indicating the amount of adulteration ranging from
to as much as 95. The remaining five samples had been mixed with
water, the lowest proportion of the adulterant being 13 per cent., and the
highest, 23 parts. Apart from the twelve samples of milk here particularise
there were ten instances in which the milk was found to be of "poor"
"inferior" quality; but as calculations must be based on very low limit
none of these could be certified as adulterated. It should be mentioned the
at least one sample of milk was found to be of unusually good quality
Comparatively few samples of butter were submitted for analysis; sevented
in all, or nearly the same number as in the previous year; these we
returned as of normal quality.
Coffee.—Nine samples of coffee were received during the year, and two
of these were adulterated with chicory—the quantities of the extraneou
substance being 14 and 68 parts, respectively. The number of samples
coffee having been so limited, it is not easy to form an opinion whether the
admixture of chicory is carried on in Fulham as extensively as in past years
but it is noteworthy that of the five samples submitted to me in 1894-95, no
one was adulterated, while in 1895-96, two out of the nine samples containe
chicory. There would not seem to be much improvement here.