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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
three 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 conduet of the food trades. 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. On the other hand, the conditions
under which food is sold in the street or from shops
with open fronts are still unsatisfactory, while the
sophistication of food although checked in some ways
still continues in new and subtler forms.
CLEANLINESS IN THE FOOD TRADES.
The by-laws prepared by the L.C.C. under Section
6 of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1932, to promote sanitary and cleanly conditions
in the manufacture, etc. of any article
intended for the food of man have now been
issued.
The Street Trading Committee continues its
endeavours to prevent the contamination of food
sold in the streets.
Little more can be done until the law is considerably
extended and strengthened in its control
of the food trades.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
Seven hundred and twenty-four samples were
taken ; 705 of these proved to be " genuine " and 19
or 2.6 per cent. adulterated.