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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 : (1) 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. 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 torms. It is to
be hoped that when the new Food and Drugs Bill is
passed into law it will be speedily followed by Government
standards of composition of the principal
foods for the protection of the public.
FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
Seven hundred and thirty-five samples were taken ;
702 of these proved to be " genuine " and 33 or
4.5 per cent, adulterated.