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FOOD STANDARDS (PRESERVES) (AMENDMENT)
ORDER, 1950
The above Order raised the minimum fruit content of certain
jams by amounts varying from 2 to 15 per cent.
ICED LOLLIES
In consequence of representations made by the Metropolitan
Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee regarding the danger of
injury to children from eating iced lollies which have been in
direct contact with solid carbon-dioxide, the Ministry of Food
intimated that it would be a mistake to give undue prominence
to the dangers in question, but asked the trade to draw attention
to the importance of keeping dry ice in a separate container,
which is the usual practice, or otherwise adequately protecting
it from coming into contact with ice or ice cream. The sale of
iced lollies or cream contaminated by carbon-dioxide would
appear to be an offence, and it might well be that effective
action by a local authority may have more useful results than
would be obtained from general publicity.
ICE CREAM HEAT TREATMENT REGULATIONS
Following intimations made by the Council to the Metropolitan
Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee that local authorities
should have effective powers to enforce bacterial cleanliness
of ice cream products, representations were accordingly
made to the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Food. The
Ministry of Health, however, informed the Standing Joint
Committee that the coliform test could not be regarded as
indicating dangerous contamination, and pointed out that
the Public Health Laboratory Service had agreed that the
test could not be accepted as satisfactory for the examination
of ice cream. Accordingly, it was suggested that the Standing
Joint Committee should ask the Ministry of Health what steps
they suggested should be taken in the case of manufacturers of
ice cream whose products consistently fell below Grade 2.
ICE CREAM
There are 149 ice cream dealers and 26 manufacturers in this
Borough, an increase of 28 dealers and 2 manufacturers from last
year. Most of the dealers sold only pre-packed ice cream,
obtained from the large manufacturers ; a number of local
manufacturers possess modern equipment with indicating and
recording apparatus.