RANCID DRIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 138, 11 June 1920, Page 2

RANCID DRIPPING

Action was taken at the Magistrate's Court to-day against A. B. Preston upon an information alleging that he had sold food unfit for human consumption. The police (statement was to the eltecl that on Tuesday Inspectors Cowdrj and Terry had called at the Manners-street branch of Preston's pork butchery business, in consequence of a coniplaint made, and had purchased a pound of dripping, which, when tested at the Government. Laboratory, \vas found to ha quite unfit for human consumption, as it was in n. rancid condition. Mr. P. H. .Putnam, for the defence, . said that the defendant could not personally supervise all transactions in the several branches, but had issued instructions that every care was to be observed in both "factory and shops. As a matter of fact, the dripping was not in a very bad state, for the lady who first complained did not discover anything amiss until she heated it. Preston had been previously convicted on a. charge of having mixed an undue proportion of starchy food in sausages, but had not been proceeded against previously on such a charge as the present one. The Magistrate, Mr. E. Page, said that there" was an obligation on the part of the vendor to fee that all goods sold we.-c fit for human consumption. A fine o? 34, -vith 7s ccets, would be imposed.