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THE Ministry of Health has issued a memorandum on the steps to be taken by medical officers of health (outside London) in suspected cases of food poisoning (Memo. 188/Med.). The two classes of food poisoning are dealt with—contamination of food by poisonous chemicals and bacterial infections of food, which are far more frequent. Directions are given outlining the methods of investigating outbreaks, the collection of material for chemical or bacteriological examination, and method of packing and transmission to the Ministry, with hints on the chemical or bacteriological examination. In an appendix, a scheme is outlined for the routine inquiry into outbreaks of poisoning by meat foods, and in a second appendix valuable details are given for the isolation and identification of the bactera (Salmonella) concerned in bacterial food poisoning.
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Food Poisoning. Nature 136, 546 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136546a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136546a0