OBJECTS FOUND IN BREAD
Complaints To Health Department
A pencil sharpener, numerous cigarette butts, pieces of glass up to the size of a halfpenny, string and a bandage off a finger had been found in bread baked in Christchurch, said the senior inspector of the Health Department in the Christchurch District (Mr W. F. de Roo) yesterday. Flies and insects had been found in cake made in Christchurch. Mr de Roo said complaints about bread, cakes or pies came in at least once a fortnight. “Most complaints are genuine,” he said. Mr de Roo said it depended on the nature of the “foreign body” whether action was taken. “In modern machine baking sometimes a piece of dough accumulated on a machine with grease, works into a loaf,” he said. “That may easily happen even in a well-controlled bakehouse. The greasy dough is harmless of course.” Mr de Roo said that other complaints included fly-blown pies and stale or mouldy pies. “In the last five or six years in Christchurch there have been dozens of prosecutions on grounds of food being unhygienic,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 10
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