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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
There are no offensive trades, slaughterhouses or licensed slaughtermen
in the Borough.
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 Analyst,
but foods which deteriorate in quality and become unfit for human
consumption are supervised by inspection and can be seized with
subsequent condemnation by a Justice of the Peace and destruction.
Voluntary Surrender of Food
In practice shopkeepers rareiy attempt knowingly 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 public health inspector
who if satisfied after examination that the food is unfit issues
a certificate to that effect and arranges for its removal to and
destruction at the Council' s Refuse Destructor.