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(1) The Food Standards {Ice Cream) Regulations, 1959.
These Regulations revoke and replace the Food Standards (Ice
Cream) Order, 1953. The regulations prescribe amended standards for
ice cream and for "Parev" (kosher) ice and introduce separate standards
for dairy ice cream (or dairy cream ice or cream ice) and for milk ice.
The standards for dairy ice cream and for milk ice provide that they shall
Contain no fat other than milk fat except such as may be introduced by
the use of any egg, any flavouring substance or any emulsifying or
stabilising agent. The requirement in the 1953 Order that ice-cream
should contain not less than 10 per cent, of sugar is replaced by a
Provision that no type of ice cream shall contain any artificial sweetener.
(2) The Labelling of Food (Amendment) Regulations, 1959.
These Regulations amend the Labelling of Food Order, 1953, by
new provisions relating to Ice Cream. They prohibit the labelling,
marking, or advertising of ice cream in a manner suggestive of butter,
cream, milk, or anything connected with the dairy interest, unless the
ice cream contains no fat other than milk fat, but permit the presence
of milk solids to be declared. The Regulations also provide that it
will be an offence after the 30th November, 1959, to sell under the
description "Ice Cream" any pre-packed ice cream which contains fat,
other than milk fat, unless it bears on the wrapper a declaration
contains non-milk fat", or, if appropriate, " Contains vegetable fat
(3) The Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1959.
These Regulations consolidate and amend the Ice Cream (Heat
Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1947-1952. They require that ingredients
used in the manufacture of ice cream are to be pasteurised by one or
other of three specified methods, or sterilised and thereafter kept at a low
temperature until the freezing process is begun. The Regulations make
it an offence to sell or offer for sale ice cream that has not been so
treated, or which has been allowed to reach a temperature exceeding
28° it, without it again being treated. They exempt from the
requirments as to pasteurisation or sterilisation certain types of Water
Ices or Ice Lollies which are sufficiently acid to make such treatment unnecessary.
Butchcrs' Shops.
There are 70 butchers' shops in the Borough. All these shops are
symetically inspected, 818 visits having been made during the year.
twenty-one notices concerning non-compliance with the Food Hygiene
Regulations were served.
One shop where horseflesh is sold for human food is included
8 the butchers' shops mentioned above.
Fish Shops.
Shops in which fish, either cooked or uncooked, is sold, or where
the curing smoking of fish is carried on, are regularly inspected.
There are 44 such shops in the Borough. 81 inspections were made,
and 1 notice served in respect of breaches of the Food Hygiene
Regulations.