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UNSOUND FOOD.
The markets have been regularly inspected, and on 39 occasions
the Inspectors have discovered food—chiefly fruit—exposed
for sale in such a condition as to. justify them calling upon the
responsible person to have it removed and not used for the food
of man. There have been 155 consignments of unsound food
surrendered for condemnation as follows:—
Meat 2½ tons.
Rabbits 353
Fish 52 trunks.
Dates 8 cwts.
Cheese 1 cwt.
Potatoes 21 cwts.
Sugar 21 lbs.
Jam 3 cwts.
Milk 384 tins.
Butter 3 cwts.
Apples 1 box.
Tomatoes 1 railway truck.
Jelly Cubes 6 boxes.
Eggs 674
155 certificates have been given indicating the condition of
the food when submitted for examination. Care is exercised
when issuing a certificate to ascertain essential facts. The principle
of surrendering unsound food for examination and condemnation
is open to serious objection, as there is always the
possibility of substitution, whilst on the other hand, if unsound
food could not be surrendered, much of it would find its way to
the market. In previous reports reference has been made to the
practice of selling by sample in the wholesale markets, the purchaser
not seeing the article purchased until it arrives at his
premises, then to find it in such a condition as to warrant his
calling in the local Inspector to pronounce upon its fitness or
otherwise for human food. Had the article been examined by
the market Inspector before it left his jurisdiction, much time,
labour, and expense would be saved.
An important seizure of a live cow was made from a
slaughter-house in Whitta Road. Together with the District