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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
This part of the report deals with the work carried out by the
Food Inspectors under the Pood and Drugs Act, 1938, the Public
Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, and the Milk (Special Designation)
Regulations, 1949 and 1950, and the Ice Cream (Heat Treatment,
etc.) Regulations, 1947.
1. Sampling of Food and Drugs.
(a) For Chemical analysis
Number procured formally 200
Number procured informally 1,300
Of the 200 formal samples, 167 were of milk. For the first time
it can be recorded that no sample was found to be adulterated.
(b) For bacteriological and other examinations.
The following shows the number and types of samples submitted
for bacteriological and other examinations:-
Bacteriological Examinations
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Mix 155
Ice Lolly 6
Ice Cream Wrapping Paper 1
Swab used in Ice Cream manufacture 1
Liquid Egg 4
*Lambs Heart 2
*Sausages 1
Bread 1
*Pork Pie 1
Desiccated Coconut 6
Coconut Fruit Jelly 1
Sweetened Flour 1
Bottle of Milk 1
Total 181
* These articles were suspected to have caused food poisoning
but no organisms likely to cause food poisoning were isolated,
a faecal strain of B.Coli was however isolated from the heart. The
rapid onset of symptoms after the sausages suggested that the
poisoning was due to pre-formed toxin. No pathogenic organisms
were found in the pork pie.