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Samples of milk sold under special designations are taken at intervals, and are submitted
to bacteriological examination, in order to ascertain if tliey comply with the standard specified
in the Order.
As regards "Certified " Milk and " Grade A (Tuberculin tested) " Milk in those cases
in which the latter milk is bottled at the farm, a scheme has been devised by the Ministry of
Health, under which the work of sampling is divided between the Local Authorities in whose
area the milk is sold.
Samples of the grades above mentioned are to be taken on receipt of instructions from the
Ministry, and no samples of these Grades were required to be taken in this Borough during the
year.
Artificial Cream Act, 1929.
The above Act, which came into force on June 1st, 1929, requires the registration of all
premises in which Artificial Cream is manufactured, sold, or exposed for sale for human
consumption. This requirement does not apply to premises where Artificial Cream is not
supplied otherwise than in the properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it is delivered
to those premises, nor to its manufacture solely for domestic purposes, nor to its manufacture
on any premises for use in the preparation on those premises of some other article of food.
The numberof premises registered during the year, in accordance with the requirements
of the Act, was one (retail).
Artificial Cream is defined in the Act as an article of food resembling Cream and
containing no ingredient which is not derived from milk, except water. In actual practice it is
manufactured from Dried Milk, Butter and Water in suitable proportions, and the term
Re-constituted Cream would appear to be more appropriate than the word Artificial.
(6) MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
The two special Food Inspectors have kept under regular observation food exposed or
deposited for sale in slaughter-houses, butchers' shops, cooked meat shops, fishmongers'
premises, stalls, market places, etc.