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Legal Proceedings — Food and Food Premises
During the year legal proceedings were taken in respect of unhygienic conditions in 20 food and catering
premises. Two of these further included contraventions of the Offices, Shops & Railway Premises Act 1963.
Fines totalling £6,400 with £652 costs were imposed. In one other case proceedings could not be taken as
it was impossible to discover the full name of the Company carrying on the food business and the
difficulty of proceedings being sustained against a person associated with the business. In another case the
defendant left the country before the hearing took place.
The following matters arising from complaints also resulted in legal proceedings:
Sale of bread pudding and a cake each containing a cigarette end. Also dirty condition of a food mixer.
Two defendants each fined £21 with £10 costs.
Ham roll containing a quantity of live larvae. Fined £50 with £26.25 costs.
Selling food unfit for human consumption — the food had been gnawed by mice. Fined £30 with £25
costs.
Sale of sausage rolls affected by mould growth and having in possession for sale food unfit for human
consumption. Fined a total of £30 with £3 costs.
Selling a loaf of bread containing a cigarette end. Fined £75 with £15 costs.
Selling a chocolate Swiss roll affected by mouse contamination. Fined £25 with £5 costs.
Exposing for sale mouse contaminated foodstuffs. Fined £65 with £15 costs.
Serving marmalade at hotel premises which contained a piece of glass and failing to place food so as to
avoid risk of contamination. Fined £75 with £20 costs.
Sale of two cartons of soup containing cockroaches and failing to protect other food from risk of
contamination. Fined £75 with £25 costs.
Sale of a 'take-away' meal which contained mouse droppings. Fined £40 with £5 costs.
Sale of a cake containing a piece of glass. Fined £75 with £25 costs.
Sale of a bacon roll in which an insect was embedded in the bread. Fined £5 with £15 costs.
Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959
Under these Regulations a local authority is required to keep a register of persons carrying on the trade
of distributor of milk at or from premises within their district whether or not such premises are occupied
by the distributor.
As at the 31st December, 1972, 287 distributors of milk were registered.
Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1963 (as amended)
The City Council is responsible for the granting on application of Dealers' Licences in relation to prepacked
milks sold under the special designations "Untreated", "Ultra Heat Treated", "Pasteurised" and/or
"Sterilised".