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applicant's methods of food production, storage and equipment.
Should these be unsuitable or unsatisfactory, the London
County Council is notified and a trading licence is refused.
Most of the applicants reside in other Boroughs
and I am indebted to their Medical Officers of Health for
cooperation in supplying reports on these itinerant food
vendors.
As may well be imagined, it is a very difficult
matter indeed to keep track of all the itinerant food traders
who cater for the large crowds which assemble on Hampstead
Heath on Bank Holidays but, taken by and large, quite a fair
amount of supervision is successfully undertaken by your
Inspectors.
The majority of the mobile vans are provided with
food hygiene equipment of a very high order, in fact, most
of our troubles arise in persuading food handlers that the
equipment is there for use and is not merely a show-piece I
So far as the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955 are
concerned, the principal matters which called for comment were
1.The need to provide more adequate protection for
"open foods" displayed for sale.
2. The omission of the inscription of the names and
addresses of food vendors on their stalls.
3.Smoking whilst preparing food.
All these matters were immediately drawn to the
attention of the vendors concerned and were followed up by
cautionary letters indicating that, should further offences
of a like nature be discovered, legal proceedings would be
instituted.
All bacteriological samples are speedily reported
upon by the Central Public Health Laboratory at Colindale,
and I must once more express to Dr. Betty Hobbs, Principal
of the Food Hygiene Section, my thanks for her cooperation
and assistance at all times.