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Many more restaurants and shops are being opened which
specialise in continental and eastern foods. Their proprietors
or staffs either experience great difficulty in understanding
the requirements of the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1960, or pretend
to do so. To overcome this situation it is anticipated
that these regulations will shortly be printed in a number of
languages, copies of which will be made available to the staffs
concerned. This has already been done in the Borough of
Hammersmith with some success.
Fairgrounds - Catering Hygiene.
As usual the Food Inspector, Mr. W.F. Newport, and his
assistants were on duty throughout the period of the Hampstead
Heath Fairs on each of the Easter, Whitsun and August Bank
Holidays.
No less than 154 samples of all the popular foods
traditionally sold on fair days were taken for chemical analyses
and bacterial examinations.
The variety of foods ranged from ice cream and ice lollies
to every conceivable kind of shell-fish, "hot-dogs", steak pies,
etc., and concluded with samples of spirituous liquors from the
surrounding hostelries.
It is gratifying to record that all the 66 samples analysed
chemically were found to be wholesome and genuine, and fault was
found with only 10 of the 88 submitted for bacteriological
examination. The latter contained no pathogenic bacteria.
In addition to this very comprehensive sampling schedule
particular attention was paid to all the vans and stalls where
food was being sold in order to ensure that there was adequate
cleanliness of clothing and equipment, and that arrangements for
sterilization of all ice cream equipment conformed with modern
practice.
Clean Food Guilds.
The setting up of these guilds was raised as the result of
one enquiry into the recommended use of the paper sack method of
refuse collection, particularly in those cases where such refuse
has to be taken through the food premises for collection.
I reported thereon as follows
"The setting up of clean food guilds became popular in
the post war years partly because of the change in eating
habits which arose during the war and the much greater use of