[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the maximum of 16'0 per cent. This is most satisfactory, but the results obtained from the 7 samples of so-called Milk Blended Butter present a very different picture, no fewer than 6 containing considerably above the 2-f per cent, of water said to be present, whilst two of the official samples contained cocoa-nut oil and one unofficial sample was almost certainly similarly adulterated. The following table indicates the composition of these 7 samples in com])arison with genuine butter. BUTTKK. Wiiter. Under IC) per cent, nsuallv 37 MlMv-IU.ENDKI) 38 3!) i)7 BUTTER. bS 7(i 77 10—H CunUtAsli. U.'siially un- 27-3 2;)-7 23-(i 2S-3 27-37) 2(13 27-(l der Uat Sekloin under 80, usu.allv 3-13 4-3 r)'2 r)-r> ()•.') 7 (V.j o'2 82—8(1 Cneoa-iint ()il ()0'.*)7 (KJ’O 71'2 ()(]’2 (Itj-OS (17-2 (17-2 in Fat None r>°/o ■ I’nibald)' ^V1)S. Al)s. 7/, A!.,.. Al)s. From these results it is evident that milk-blended butter contains about 10 per cent, of fat less than ordinary butter. In my last Annual lleport, when referring to a ))rosecution for a false warranty for cani])horated oil, I took occasion to draw attention to the inadequate penalty inflicted ; I now desire to again respectfully record my opinion that such penalties as “ and costs ” are quite insufficient to deter well-to-do vendors from selling adulterated goods. The samples Nos. 57 and 58 formed the basis for prosecuting a very large firm having many branches in various parts of the country. The prosecu- tion was undertaken as the result of a large amount of labour, several samples taken for a long time previously having given doubtful results, sufficiently definite to enable me to form a very strong “ opinion ” that cocoa- nut oil was present, but not definite enough for prosecu- tion. At last, these two samples gave absolutely certain results—although the determination of small quantities of cocoa-nut oil is beset with peculiar difficulties—and