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Voluntary Surrender of Food:
In practice, shopkeepers make very little attempt to sell to the
public any foodstuff which is unfit for human consumption and it is
customary for retailers who find food they have purchased from wholesalers
to be unsound at the time they receive it or to have become
unfit after storage on their premises to notify the local authority
and request an inspection by the district sanitary inspector who will,
if satisfied after examination that the food is unfit, issue a
certificate to that effect and arrange for its removal to, and destruction
at, the Council's Refuse Destructor.
Diseased or unsound meat and all other unsound food dealt with
by the sanitary inspector becomes the property of the local authority
whose duty it is to destroy it or otherwise dispose of it in such a
way that it cannot be exposed for sale or used for human consumption.
After removal from his premises a certificate is issued to the
shopkeeper giving details of the foodstuffs dealt with which may
enable him to obtain credit or compensation from his wholesale
suppliers.
During 1953, 2,029 Certificates of Condemnation were issued by
the Food Inspectors relating to the under-mentioned voluntarily
surrendered foods:-
Meat 2,449½ lbs.
Ham 314¼ "
Sausages 709 "
Fish 19 stone.
Tinned foods 15,288
Packet foods 236
Bottled foods 23
Eggs 18½ -dozen.
Salt herrings l½ -barrels.
Offal 39 - lbs.
Cheese 226 boxes
Other foods 68½-lbs.