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PROTECTION OF FOOD SUPPLY.
The work of the Local Health Authority with a
view to the protection of the food supply takes threo
forms: (i) Supervision of premises where food is prepared
or sold, to ensure cleanliness; (ii) Examining
food as to its soundness; and (iii) Sampling food to
ascertain its composition and quality.
The whole sanitary inspecting staff co-operate in
exercising general supervision over the cleanly conduct
of the food trades. The conditions under which food
is sold in the street or from shops with open fronts still
gives room for much dissatisfaction.
Unsound food is much less frequently found than
in former years and in this as in the matter of cleanliness,
food traders and the public are rightly recognising
the need for higher standards.
The figures which follow illustrate the problems
which arise in testing the quality and nature of the
great variety of foodstuffs now in common use. We still
lack official standards for many important foods.