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Orpington 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOODS.
General.
Over 900 inspections of food shops were made during the year
and the general standard of cleanliness was found to be satisfactory.
There were no outbreaks of food poisoning and of the twenty-five
single cases notified by doctors, only seven were confirmed.
Since the introduction of the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations
Act, 1955, there has been a gradually increasing awareness among
food handlers of the importance of cleanliness and the proper storage
of food in relation to the illness known as Food Poisoning and, with
indications that the public are becoming more fastidious over what it
is expected to eat, we may expect to find that more and more shopkeepers
are finding that good food hygiene is good business.
The year's sampling revealed no adulteration and investigations
into the Analyst's reports on the few inferior samples were resolved
satisfactorily.
Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
Food Sampling.
Details of the two hundred and twenty-three informal samples of food and drugs taken for analysis are as follow:—
| Samples taken. | Result | Adult- | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description. | Formal. | Informal. | Genuine | inferior | crated. | Remarks |
| Bacon | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Baking Powder | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Blood Purifier | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Boned Chicken | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Brown Bread Mix | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Butter | — | 6 | 6 | — | — | |
| Buttered Carrots | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Butter Sweet Confectionery | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Cake Confectionery | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| California Syrup of Figs | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Castor Oil | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Catarrh Pastilles | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Chicken Continental | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Cocoa | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Codeine Tablets | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Coffee and Chicory Mixture | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Cold Discs | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Cooking Fat | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Corned Beef | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | see (a). |
| Cornflour | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Cough Tablets | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Cream | — | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Creamed Rice Pudding | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Currants | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Curry Powder | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Dehydrated Kibbled Onion | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Desiccated Coconut | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |