Annual Report of the Council for the Year 1967

I968 JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS Annual Report of the Council for the Year 1967 Presellled at tlrc Annual General Mceting ol the Association of Public Analysts lteld in Lontlon on l1lh l2th Ma1,, 1968 b), the Honorar!’ Seoelary, Mr. The constant vigilance maintained by Public Analysts’ laboratories to ensure the purity of our foods and drugs and to protect the public from environmental hazards such as pollution of our water supplies or of the air rve breathe demands flexibility of approach and constantly changing emphasis. The gross and lraudulent adulteratiolr of flood, which rvas rile a century ago and which brought Public Analysts into existence, has almost entirely disappeared, to be replaced by more insidious dangers to our health and pockets. These subtler dangers require far greater knowledge and more complex and sophisti- cated equipment. The last decade has seen profout.td changes in the rvork of our laboratories.