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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
SLAUGHTERMEN'S LICENCES.
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
During the year 1954, one such licence was issued to a slaughterman
resident in Fulham. There are no slaughterhouses in the Borough.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. 1938. SECTION 10.
Examination of Food and Seizure of Unsound Food.
Certain articles of food which are liable to be adulterated are
controlled by sampling and chemical analysis by the Public Analysts,
but foods which deteriorate in quality and become unfit for human
consumption are supervised by inspection and seizure with subsequent
condemnation by a Justice of the Peace and destruction.
Section 10 of the Act empowers any authorised officer of the local
authority to examine food for human consumption which is deposited
for sal®, and if it appears"to him to be unfit he may seize it and
remove it in order to have it dealt with by a Justice of the Peace.
If it appears to the Justice of the Peace that any food brought
before him is unfit for human consumption he shall condemn it and
order it to be destroyed or to be so dealt with as to prevent it
being used for human food.
No action was necessary under this section during 1954.
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 f^om
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 issue for human consumption.