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Street Markets
Efforts were made by daily visits, including week-ends, to maintain satisfactory
conditions in respect of food stalls. Stallholders often failed to keep the area
surrounding their stalls clear of waste material, mainly because of the lack of
suitable large refuse containers conveniently positioned.
The operation at weekends of a mobile chicken slaughterhouse constituted a unique
type of street trading during the year. Live chickens were sold and upon completion of
the sale the birds were slaughtered and plucked by the vendor. Conditions were not
satisfactory and the business has now ceased.
It is hoped that the legislation coming into force on the 1st January, 1967,
dealing specifically with markets, stalls and delivery vehicles, will result in an
improvement in the general conditions affecting street trading.
Food Complaints
The number of complaints received in respect of foodstuffs purchased in the
Borough was 60 compared with 53 in the previous year.
Bread and flour confectionery continued to account for the highest number.
Complaints about meat and meat products did not increase and undoubtedly the work
done by the manufacturers in maintaining a constant advisory service to their
customers, particularly on the need for selling goods in rotation, showed results.
Milk and milk products Were not the cause of as many complaints as previously by
the public and it was felt that this was the result of more efficient methods of
detection being introduced by the milk industry.
The co-operation of manufacturers and vendors of foodstuffs sold in the Borough
was encouraging. Every assistance was invariably given to the inspectors investigating
complaints.
The 60 complaints of alleged unfitness were received in respect of the following:
Bread and cakes Canned Fruit
Foreign body in bread 6 Blackened Mango Slices 1
Mouldy bread 4
Live insect in loaf 1 _i_
Insects in loaf 3
Rubber band in mince pie 1 Milk
Unpleasant taste in mince pie 1 Dirty milk bottle 1
Mouldy cakes 3 Foreign body in bottle 2
Insects in cake 3 Insect in carton of cream 1
22 4
Canned Meats Miscellaneous
Alleged unfitness 2 Alleged unfitness of meal 1
Mouldy corned beef 1 Rancid butter 2
Insect in corned beef 1 Metal in chocolate date 1
Alleged horsemeat 1
4 Enamel in mashed potatoes 1
Mouse droppings in cereal 1
Decomposing fish 2
Glass in restaurant meal 1
Butter alleged to be margarine 1
Unfit evaporated milk 1
Insect in Yoghurt 1
Foreign matter in fish 1
Metal in meal 1
Alleged foreign body in linctus 1
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