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Approval was given for one Inspector to attend a Refresher Course in Meat
Inspection given by the Food Commodities Department cf the College for the Distributive
Trades. The Course was held during the evenings and consisted of 18 lectures/
demonstrations.
Approval was also given for two Inspectors engaged in duties under the Food and
Drugs Act to visit a large Ice Cream Manufacturing and Distributing Depot,
In order to secure compliance with the Pood and Drugs Act, 1955 and the Hygiene
Regulations made thereunder, night inspections were carried out by Inspectors. During
the course of these duties, inspections were made of refreshment houses, night clubs
and vehicles used for the transport of meat and the delivery of milk, bread, etc., to
retailers. Any necessary action was taken.
Cbmplaints of alleged unfitness were received in respect of the following-
Ants in cake
Black substance in bread
Cbntaminated dates
Dirty bottle of cream
Discolouratiai of tinned pork
luncheon meat
Fly in loaf of bread
Fbreign substance in loaf of bread
Foam rubber in bottle of milk
Fbreign substance in bun
Glass in milk bottle
* Glass in tinned salmon
Hair in meat and vegetable pie
Horse Chestnut in bottle of milk
Lead in angelica
* With regard to this complaint the glass" was found to be crystals of struvite a
substance which can be mistaken for glass but which occurs naturally at times in
canned salmon,
A quantity of tomato puree, olives, pickled pigs-ears, beans etc., fcund to be
unfit at an address in the Borough, were seized by the Inspector and an Order obtained
from the Magistrate for its destruction - a prosecuticn followed
Details of the prosecutions taken in respect of the above complaints and other
action by the Inspector appears on pages 69 - 73
Maggots in chocolate wafer bar
Mould in birthday cake
Mould in bread (3)
Mould in Cornish pasty
Mould in Party pork pie
Mould in meat party pie
Mould in apple pies (3)
Mouldy skinless pork sausages
Mouldy steak and kidney pie
Sacking in bread
Tin of corned beef - decomposed
String in loaf of bread
Rancid butter
Wire in bread
Hie standard of hygiene in food undertakings is normally at a satisfactory level
but the Council is concerned about the conditions which exist in the remainder of
cafes and restaurants and which are not providing the standard of cleanliness and
hygiene which the public are entitled to expect.
In a report submitted by the Public Health Committee to the Council, it was
stated that regular inspections of food premises are made and when, as a result of such
inspections or when such matters are brought to the Committee s attention by complaint,
investigations are made, warnings given and if there is no satisfactory improvement,
proceedings are instituted.