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Pharmacy & Poisons Act 1933
The Council keeps a List of Sellers of Part II Poisons under
the Act and in 1957 42 applications for names to be placed or re
tained on the List were approved,, Each of the premises concerned
was visited during the year to ensure that the provisions of the
Act and Poisons Rules were complied with in regard to containers
and labelling.
Unsound Food
No formal seizure and condemnation of food under Section 9 of
the Pood & Drugs Act 1955 was necessary during the year. There
is little evidence of attempts by traders to sell unwholesome food
to the public in fact it is the traders themselves who generally
notify the Department of any suspected unsound food in their pos
session. In such cases voluntary surrender of food is accepted
and certificates issued by the Pood Inspectors accordingly. The
amount of food dealt with remained comparatively high because in
addition to the many retail food shops in Finsbury certain multiple
stores have their warehouses in Pinsbury to which doubtful food is
returned from branches all over London. Similarly large quantities
of foodstuffs are handled by the British Transport Commission which
has depots in the borough and the Pood Inspectors are frequently called
in to adjudicate on food that has been damaged or contaminated in
course of transit
No occasion arose during the year for the special examination of
any large quantity of a specific stock or consignment of food other
than meat.,
A total of 154 visits were made by the Food Inspectors during the
year in connection with the examination of unsound food and 986 con
demnation certificates were issued. These figures exclude any reference
to meat inspection.
Small quantities of food are subject to incineration where facili
ties exist, but generally unsound food other than meat is removed as
trade refuse by the Council's general contractor, Where necessary
the cans containing food are pierced
Details of the unsound food surrendered during the year are as
follows