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Meat and other Foods
Throughout the year the routine inspection of premises, shops,
stalls and vehicles where food is prepared, stored or sold was carried
out. During 1956,3,461 visits were made and at 83 of these, unsatisfactory
conditions constituting contraventions under the wood Hygiene
Regulations 1955 were found. In each case the unsatisfactory conditions
were remedied following the issue of verbal notices and warning
letters by the Inspectors.
The inspection of food exposed for sale, In storage and in course
of preparation and manufacture was under constant supervision. No food
was formally seized under Section 9 of the Act. Quantities of unsound
food not coming within this section were voluntarily surrendered to
the Inspectors. A list showing the amount involved is shown in the
statistical supplement.
The disposal of condemned or unsound food was strictly supervised
by the Inspectors. Tins of unsound food were pierced and taken to the
Council's wharf at Chancellors Road for transport to a controlled tip.
Quantities of unsound fish and meat were disposed of in the same way.,
unsound meat being stained with naphthalene green dye before disposal.
Diseased meat is destroyed in co-operation with the Royal Borough
of Kensington at their destructor situated In the borough in Wood Lane.