[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, High Wycombe Borough.
- High Wycombe (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1965
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, High Wycombe Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![stressed, however, that the van salesman is not always to be blamede Outdated products have been known to come direct from the distribution centre. The effect of this practice is that customers have received food, fancy cakes etc., which were mouldy. The retailerswere unable to see this because of the type of wrapping, and the variation in shelf life made for no easy system of stock rotation. In Law, however, the retailer is responsible, but because of the doubt which has been found to arise in these cases proceedings have not been taken by this Authority, Representations have been made to various firms concerning this practice, and it is pleasing to know that at least one important manufacturer has now divulged the complete coding system to retailers so that an easy check can be made on the age of the products, and thus ensure that the product is fresh and of the quality expected by the purchaser. Food Labelling The labelling of food is a matter which receives close attention by the department and on this subject it must be reported that representations were made to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in connection with the report on food labelling, the labelling of margarine, and the labelling of butter, and further representations concerning proposed Regulations, In particular comments were made on the proposed labelling of margarine, the definition of chocolate, and the true statement of the ingredients of a commodity and concerning the naming of the commodity itself. There are far too many products sold today which bear no clear indication of their true identity. Dried skimmed milk, bakers couverture (a cocoa bean product devoid of cocoa butter) which looks like chocolate, as instances. It is surety reasonable to ask that any product, despite any fancy name applied to it, should bear on the labe], equally as clearly as ary fancy name, the true and commonly known name of that product. It would be wrong to quote any particular food product in this report but hypothetically a product called Magnif ’gluten and bran free flour', should surely be referred to as 'starch'. The new Regulations concerning the labelling of food which will go at least some way toward this end and be an improvement on the present Regulations, are eagerly awaited.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29427903_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
