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British Food Journal Volume 65 Issue 7 1963

British Food Journal

ISSN: 0007-070X

Article publication date: 1 July 1963

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Abstract

About two years ago we took a random sample of reports on legal proceedings received at the offices of this journal over a period of three months to illustrate changing trends in food offences. This drew attention to the enormous increase in prosecutions for the presence of foreign bodies in foods and to the almost complete disappearance of frank adulteration cases. Now we present another random sample consisting of all the reports of legal proceedings received for the three months April, May and June of this year. They obviously are not all the cases brought before the Courts in that period, but are nonetheless a broad selection and give a reasonably accurate picture for the whole country. As before, the results have been tabulated and “foreign body” cases dominate the scene and all except one have been brought under Section 2, Food & Drugs Act, 1955. In the last report, 15.6 per cent had been brought under Section 8. This section appears to have limited use nowadays; offences relating to the sale of food in a state of unsoundness or decomposition are for the most part brought under Section 2.

Citation

(1963), "British Food Journal Volume 65 Issue 7 1963", British Food Journal, Vol. 65 No. 7, pp. 85-98. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011615

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MCB UP Ltd

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