[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council].

  • Barnet (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1964?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (22) this is not popular in this Country and it has been recommended that this be reduced by 50 %. This sample contained 3 % fats. No further action was taken. Milk. A bottle of milk was brought to the Department with specks on the inside of the bottle. Your Analyst reported that these reddish specks were iron filings. A warning letter was sent to the retailer. MERCHANDISE LARKS ACT. 1926. The Council became the authority for enforcing the provisions of these Acts and Orders made thereunder when they were designated a Pood and Drugs Authority. No formal action was found necessary during the year. MEAT AND FOOD CONDEMNED. The following is a list of articles of food condemned as unfit for human consumption during the year, the frozen packets being from two deep freeze cabinets which broke down and the food became defrosted and out of condition. Meat and Poultry. Fresh. Tinned and Frozen. English Pork and Lamt 50 lbs. Meat 19 Tins and Packets. Imported Pigs Kidneys 13 lbs. Poultry 2 „ „ 11 „ Fish. Scampi Tails 308 lbs. Fish (various) 19 Tins and 47 Packets. General. Tinned. Frozen. Fruit 325 Tins. Fruit 2 Packets. Fruit Juice 40 Vegetables 120 Vegetables 173 Dairy Cream Sponge 2 Spaghetti and Rice 18 Dairy Mousse 13 Milk and Cream 6 Arctic Roll 1 Marmalade and Jam 5 Curry 1 Soup 3 Pie Filling 1 Pate De Foie 1 Condemned food is taken to the disposal point on the Sewage Farm, where tins are thoroughly perforated and loose food is stained and mixed with household refuse before onward transmission to the controlled tip outside the district.
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