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Becteriological Examination of Foddstuffs
Samp1es submitted for bacteriological examination numbered 117 comprising:-
2 Coconut (dessicated) 27 Ice Cream
1 Custard tart 33 Meats-; prepared and cooked
11 Dried hen egg (pasteurised) 19 Prawns (frozen cooked and peeled)
17 Frozen Ready Meals 1 Sardines
2 Gelatine I Sausage roll
1 Herring in jelly 2 Shellfish
Of these the following 23 samples were unsatisfactory:
2 Frozen Ready Meals 5 Prawns (frozen cooked and peeled)
8 Ice Cream 1 Sausage roll
7 Meats - prepared and cooked
Unsound Food
The following quantities of unsound foodstuffs were disposed of under the
Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations and the Public Health Acts:
Wharves 95 tons
London Fruit Exchange and
Spital fields Market 77 tons
Other Premises 80 tons
TOTAL 252 tons
These foods tuffs were delivered to or co11ected by the Council's Cleansing
Department at whose riverside depot it was mixed with household refuse, under
supervision, and removed by barge to a controlled tipping site in Essex.
Condemnation certificates numbering 544 were issued in respect of unsound
food in 1972.
Unsound Food Etc. -Complaints
Complaints made by members of the public as to the alleged unsound
condition etc. of foods and which were investigated during the year numbered 32.
The complaints referred to-
Alleged Unsound Conditions:
1 Blackcurrant Juice, 1 Bread, 1 Cheese, 1 Chicken, 1 Chicken pie,
1 Cod Roe, 1 Ham, 1 Liver Sausage, 1 Pork Luncheon Meat, 1 Potatoes, 1
Raisins, 1 Sausages, 2 Sterilised milk, 1 Toffees, 1 Vienna Sausage, 1 Vinegar.
Alleged Dirty Condition and/or foreign Body or Deposit
1 Apple Pie, 1 Blancmange, 3 Bread, 1 Custard, 1 Doughnut, 1 Easter-egg,
1 Fruit Cake, 1 Jam, 1 Milk, 1 Pickles, 1 Pork-pie, 1 Rice, 1 Tea.
Food Export Certificates
Certificates numbering 98 we re issued in respect of avariety of foodstuffs
exported to Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France.
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