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Circular 1/51 the Minister thanked local authorities for their cooperation
but intimated that information previously furnished was
now no longer necessary and his Circular 3/49 was therefore
cancelled.
In the Schedule to the new Order, it is stated that the standard
of ice-cream shall be as follows :—
" Ice-cream shall contain not less than 5 per cent. fat, 10 per
cent. sugar, and 7½ per cent. milk solids other than fat.
Provided that:—
1. Ice-cream containing any fruit, fruit pulp or fruit puree
shall either conform to the standard set forth above or,
alternatively, the total content of fat, sugar and milk solids
other than fat shall be not less than 25 per cent. of the icecream
including the fruit, fruit pulp or fruit puree, as the
case may be, and such total content of fat, sugar and milk
solids other than fat shall include not less than 7½ per cent.
fat, 10 per cent. sugar and 2 per cent. milk solids other than
fat;
2. " Parev " (Kosher) ice sold, offered or exposed for sale
under that description shall contain not less than 10 per
cent. fat and not less than 14 per cent. sugar, and the standard
for ice-cream set forth above shall not apply to this product."
Ice Lollies are not affected by the Order.
In connection with quantitative analysis 50 samples were taken
during the year and full reference to the analyses will be found
under the heading Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Food Rejected.—The following table is a summary of unsound
food voluntarily surrendered during the year under the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, Section 180 (8), most of
which was processed and used for animal feeding :—
Shops, Stalls, etc.—
Meat—
Beef, pieces of hindquarter 916 lbs.
Beef and mutton trimmings 16¾ ,,
Pork 8½ „
Rabbits 459½ „
Ox Tongue 13¾ „
Ox tripe 20 „
Sweetbreads 18½ „
1,452½ lbs.