EASTER EGG DAINTIES.
WOOD, STONE AND METAL. Several hundredweights of chocolate Easter eggs, condemned at Liverpool recently as unfit for human consumption, contained 3.5 per cent, of siliceous matter, mainly quartz, with a few fragments of grass, traces of lead, copper:, iron and zinc, and a quantity of woody material. Counsel said a firm in Liverpool ordered j front London 22ewt, of waste chocolates. A large portion was made into 9,036 ! Easter eggs, of which 165 boxes, containing a dozen eggs each, were consigned to some, stores in Liverpool, and the remaining portion of eggs to other local linns. The stores made a complaint, and submitted samples of these eggs, to the public analyst. The firm which ordered the chocolate from London also submitted samples, and immediately recalled all the eggs sent out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19031, 30 May 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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