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Preserved Food and Ice Cream Premises.—In accordance
with the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Section 16,
all premises with the exception of schools, clubs, hotels or restaurants
used :—
(a) for the sale, or manufacture for the purpose of sale, of
ice-cream, or storage of ice-cream intended for sale ; or
(b) for the preparation or manufacture of sausages or
potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food intended for sale;
are required to be registered by the owner or occupier with the Local
Authority.
Preserved Food Premises (meat, fish, etc.).—The total number
of premises on the register at 31st December, was 90.
One hundred and twenty-seven visits of inspection were made to
Preserved Food premises and Fried Fish shops as a result of which
four improvements were made and several sanitary defects remedied.
Ice Cream Premises.—By the end of the year the total number of
registered Ice Cream premises stood at 195.
Visits to these premises were made on 184 occasions and 10
improvements effected.
Manufacture and Sale of Ice Cream.—As the public's
appreciation of the food value of ice-cream increases, so consumption
rises, but as yet, no legal bacteriological standard exists and the
methylene blue reductase test is certainly not selective enough to
justify its adoption as a statutory measure.
However, in order to minimise the risk of contamination and
the spread of infection, the policy in Greenwich has been to
encourage the sale of' wrapped ' or ' carton ' ice-cream in preference
to the manufacture and sale of it ' loose.'
Factories in the area which produce 'Ice Lollies' or 'Lolly
Syrup' are regularly and carefully supervised.
The Ice Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1947 to 1952.—
The above Regulations were introduced to secure the elimination
of pathogenic organisms by a heat-treatment process similar to that
used in the pasteurisation of milk and, generally speaking, this
has been accomplished. The Amendment Regulations, introduced
on 5th May, 1952, served to provide a third method of heat treatment
for ice-cream.