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(i) At the slaughterhouse. Tons cwts. qrs. lb.
Pig carcases and organs — — 2 16
(ii) At shops, stores and factories.
Fresh meat, fish, poultry, vegetables,
prepared and canned foods 43 11 1 1¾
In appropriate cases the unsound food was disposed of for
animal feeding either through the assistant Divisional Food Officer
(Warehousing) of the Ministry of Food, or this Council's Salvage
Scheme.
Inspection and Supervision of Food
The introduction, during the year, of legislation concerning the
sale of milk and the control of dairies has resulted in a higher
standard of suitability, as regards dairies, being achieved.
It is interesting to note that the focus on offences relating to
food has shifted from common adulteration, such as watering
milk and adding margarine to butter, the latter almost entirely a
thing of the past, to offences arising from carelessness and lack
of supervision'. Among these, the commonest is perhaps the
presence of foreign bodies such as mouse excrement, pieces of
string and cigarette ends in loaves of bread. The table below
shows the incidence of this type of occurrence and is a statement
of complaints received in the department during the year:—
1. Cigarette end in bread.
2. Stringy material embedded in bread.
3. Nail in bread.
4. Glass in packet of national butter.
5. Mouse excrement in bread.
6. Mouse excrement in bread.
7. Dirty milk bottle.
8. Milk bottle containing pieces of broken glass.
9. Soft drink containing fly in suspension.
10. Bottle of milk containing foil cap.
11. Beetle in bread.
12. Dark coloured objects inside milk bottle.
13. Nail in bread.
14. Dark coloured objects inside milk bottle.
15. Screw, about 1 in. long, in cake.
16. Mouse excreta in crust at bottom of loaf.
17. Fly embedded in turkish delight.
18. Mouse excrement in bread.
19. Black coloured object at top of inside of milk bottle.
20. Sand in cake.
21. Dirty milk bottle.
22. Fine film of what appeared to be dust on inside of upper
part of milk bottle.