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The various food trades were divided into the following
twelve categories covering both indoor and outdoor sales :-
Bakehouses
Retail cake and bread shops
Butchers (including horse-meat shops)
Dairies and milk shops
Pood factories
Fishmongers and poulterers
Fried fish shops
Grocers and general food stores
Greengrocers and fruiterers
Hotels, restaurants, catering establishments
and other licensed premises
Ice-cream manufacturers and retailers
Sweet shops and shops where soft drinks
are sold
Representatives of these groups, together with the
local Chamber of Commerce, combined with the Council to form
a Food Advisory Committee and have met on a number of
occasions.
Basic principles for codes of hygiene were formulated
by the Food Advisory Committee for the use of employers and
employees of food trades in the borough. The basic codes
approved were set out in full in last year's Report. Copies
were distributed to all food premises and additional copies
were supplied to employers on request. Nearly 4,000 copies
of the codes were distributed during 1951.
As a means of promoting food hygiene, as far as the
general public were concerned, the Council decided to issue
a leaflet entitled "A Guide to Food Cleanliness in the Home"
to all housewives in the borough. This leaflet was prepared
by the Public Health Department, and 40,000 copies were
printed by the Borough Treasurer's Multilith Staff.
Distribution of this leaflet and a Ministry of Agriculture
and Fisheries pamphlet on rat and mice eradication was
effected by courtesy of the Local Food Officer, who arranged
for a copy of each to be handed to every person applying
for a new ration book in 1951.
In co-operation with the Pood Advisory Committee the
Council decided that notices, signed by the Medical Officer
of Health, requesting customers not to take their dogs into
food premises should be supplied for exhibition to all food
shops in the borough.
Other matters under consideration by the Food Advisory
Committee at the end of the year included the arranging of
film shows and lectures to food handlers, and the appointment
and training of "food hygiene liaison officers" in the
larger food establishments in the borough.
Food Byelaws. Model byelaws under Section 15 of the Food
and Drugs Act, 1938, were issued in 1950 by the Ministry of
Food. The byelaws are divided into three main parts as
follows
Part I is the interpretation section.
Part II includes those byelaws which apply to
persons handling, wrapping, or delivering
food intended for sale for human consumption.
Part III includes those byelaws which apply to
persons selling or exposing for sale in the
open air food intended for human consumption.