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After examination by the Public Health Inspector condemned
food is collected by this Department' s van, which has a specially
constructed metal floor for this purpose. It is then removed to
the Council's Refuse Disposal Plant where it is destroyed by incineration,
In some instances food is brought to the Department's
offices for examination and the same method of disposal applies.
(f) Food and Drugs Act, 1955.-Food Hygiene
Regulations, 1955.
Although the Pood Hygiene Regulations 1955 made under the
Pood and Drugs Act 1955 came into operation on the 1st January.
1956 certain provisions in these Regulations only took effect as
from the 1st July, 1956, All food premises in the Borough were
visited initially to introduce the Regulations, and a brochure
giving the general requirements was left in each case.
The Public Health Inspectors have since revisited these food
premises and in a number of cases where contraventions of the Pood
Hygiene Regulations have been observed a letter has been sent to
the responsible person, while in other instances matters have been
put right after verbal instructions were given to the proprietor.
Contraventions observed numbered 355 and 143 letters were sent.
In 201 instances the contraventions have been remedied. In all,
1,094 visits were made to food premises as set out below:-
Dairies and Milk Shops 62
(registered)
Ice Cream Premises 57
(registered)
Stalls (registered) 25
Butchers 124
Pried Pish Shops 18
Other Food Premises 808
The general standard of premises equipment and plant used in
the preparation and sale of food has improved during the year,,
due in the most part to the requirements of the Pood Hygiene
Regulations. There has also been a general improvement in the
standard of food handling brought about, I feel sure, by the improvement
in the structural standards of food premises.
Propaganda in the form of posters and leaflets were distributed
throughout the year to make the requirements of the Regulations
more generally known to food handlers and the public alike and a
number of talks were given on the subject of clean food and the
provisions of the Pood and Drugs Act 1955 to local organizations.