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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Milk supply
Tremlses on the Register at the end of the year:-
Dalrles - 163
Itinerant purveyors - 69
Sealed containers only - 229
The Inspectors made 627 visits, and 323 formal samples
were taken and submitted for analysis - only 1 of which fell
below the limit required by the Board of Agriculture Regulations.
Milk (Special Designations) Orders 1936 and 1938
The number of licences granted during 1942 was
supplementary
Licences Licences
Tuberculin tested 13 7
Accredited' 1 —
Pasteurised ; 42 12
Meat and Other Foods
(1) Public Health (Meat) Regulations 1924
Periodical visits of inspection were made as follows
Slaughter houses - 7
Meat Depots - 278
Butchers' shops and meat stalls - 675
Prepared meat premises - 422
.(i1) Inspection of other premises where food is prepared
or offered for sale
The Food Tnspectors have kept all such premises
under regular and frequent observation, 526 inspections being
made for the purpose.
Adulterations &c.
A total of 800 samples (396 formal and 404 Informal) were
submitted for analysis by the Public Analyst, of which 20 formal
and 14 informal were found to be adulterated. Prosecutions
were undertaken under the Food & Drugs Act 1938 in 11 cases.