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E 12 (Informal). Contained 0.05 per cent. boric acid.
E 22 (Same vendor as E 10). Contained 0.01 per cent. boric acid-
Vendor cautioned.
E 23 (Same vendor as E 11). Contained 0.03 per cent. boric acid.
Vendor cautioned.
E 24 (Same vendor as E 12). Contained 0.09 per cent. boric acid.
Vendor cautioned.
J 16 (Informal). Contained 0.03 per cent. boric acid.
J 24 (Same vendor as J 16). Contained 0.02 per cent. boric acid.
Vendor cautioned.
T 40 (Informal). Contained 0.03 per cent. boric acid. A further
sample purchased formally from the same vendor contained no
preservative.
B 28 (Informal). Contained 0.43 per cent. boron preservative
expressed as boric acid.
B 35 (Same vendor as B 28). Contained 0.40 per cent. boron
preservative expressed as boric acid.
Proceedings were taken against the vendor of this sample and
against the wholesale dealer who had supplied the vendor. The
case against the vendor was dismissed under the Probation of
Offenders Acts, with 7s. 6d. costs. The wholesale dealer was fined
£3 with £l 1s. costs.
The following samples were adulterated with margarine:—
N 61 (Informal). Contained at least 15 per cent. of margarine.
P 98 (Same vendor as N 61). Contained not less than 10 per cent.
of foreign fat of vegetable origin.
The vendor of the above samples owns a margarine factory and also
sells butter and margarine retail from a shop within a few yards of the factory.
An Inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries obtained from the
margarine factory samples of butter, which were certified by the Government
Chemist to consist of butter containing 10 per cent. of margarine. Proceedings
were taken against the owner for unlawfully manufacturing margarine
containing more than 10 per cent. of butter fat. The Inspector stated that
the margarine factory contained butter and margarine in the proportion of
6½ of butter to one of margarine, and that butter was blended on the premises;
he was informed that the blended butter was to be repacked and used at a
later date to improve margarine. (Margarine is allowed to contain not more
than 10 per cent. of butter fat). The analyst for the defence stated that the