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Skimmed, or Separated Milk.— All churns or other receptacles for the
conveyance or sale of skimmed or separated milk must be labelled "Skimmed
Milk" or "Separated Milk" as the case may be in large and legible type.
In two cases the churns were not labelled and in one case the churn
which had a small pencilled label was so placed amongst other churns that the
label could not be seen and milk was being sold from the churn.
F 54. Sold as separated milk. Consisted of poor quality skimmed
milk. The churn was not labelled. The vendor was fined £1 Is.
with £2 2s. costs.
F 55. Sold as skimmed milk. Consisted of genuine skimmed milk.
The churn was not labelled. The vendor was fined £1 Is. with
£2 2s. costs.
L 42. Sold as skimmed milk. Consisted of poor quality skimmed
milk. The churn was not labelled in a satisfactory manner.
Vendor cautioned.
In connection with the above cases sample L 73 (see table of adulterated
milk samples) was bought as milk, by an agent, from an unlabelled churn.
The Public Health Committee gave instructions that legal proceedings should
be taken against the vendor. The agent however changed his mind and would
not agree that he had bought the sample as milk. No further action could
therefore be taken.
Milk.— In one case (E 66), in which the milk-can was incorrectly inscribed,
no action was taken.
Table Jelly.— One sample taken in connection with sample B 71 (see
Annual Report for 1929) contained 75 parts sulphur dioxide per million and
was unsatisfactorily labelled. The vendor, who was cautioned, undertook to
delete the label to which objection was made.
Miscellaneous Samples.
Public Health Department.—40 samples submitted by the Public Health
Department were made up as under:—
14 samples examined for the presence of preservative comprised :
Root Ginger (3), Tinned Peaches (2), Tinned Pears (2), Tinned Apricots (2),
Seedless Raisins (2), Tinned Pilchards, Tinned tomatoes and Shrimp
Extract. All the above samples were free from preservative.