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FOOD HYGIENE (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1957
Regulations have been made which will provide that the Food Hygiene
Regulations, 1955, forbidding a person carrying on a food business to
give out food for preparation or packing on domestic premises shall not
apply to the peeling of shrimps, prawns and onions, but domestic premises
where such work is carried on must be registered with the local authority
and certain other requirements complied with. There requirements include
(a) a periodic check by the person giving out the food that the worker
is able to maintain proper standards, (b) the cleanliness of equipment
and premises, (d) the protection of food from risk of contamination and
(e) the observance of cleanly practices by persons engaged in the handling
of food and the action to be taken where they suffer from, or are
the carriers of certain infections.
SLAUGHTER OF PIGS (ANAESTHESIA) REGULATIONS, 1958
These Regulations permit the use of installations for the anaesthetising
by carbon dioxide of pigs before slaughter.
This process has not hitherto been legal in this country, although
it has been used elsewhere. The Regulations lay down requirements which
must be observed in the design and operation of installation in order
to prevent the infliction of unnecessary suffering on the pigs.
TOILET FACILITIES IN RESTAURANTS
The Metropolitan Borougns' Standing Joint Committee at their meeting
on the 14th April, 1958 were recommended to ask the London County Council
to incorporate in the next General Powers Bill a clause empowering
metropolitan borough councils to require the proprietors of public
houses, cafes, restaurants and places of public entertainment to provide
sanitary conveniences for their customers.
Local authorities outside London already have this power under the
Public Health Act, 1936, which is not applicable to London.