View report page

Food and Food Premises 35
Section 34(1) (b) of this Act requires that no premises shall
be used:—
for carrying on the business of a wholesale dealer in
margarine, margarine-cheese or milk-blended butter; unless they
are registered by the Food and Drugs authority for the purpose
in question.
During the year one application for registration under the
provisions of this Section was submitted to the Council and
granted.
Section 57(1) (a) of this Act requires that it shall not be
lawful:—
for the occupier of any premises to use them as a slaughterhouse
or knacker's yard or permit them to be so used, unless he
holds a licence granted under this section by the local authority
authorising him to keep those premises as a slaughter-house or, as
the case may be, as a knacker's yard.
During the year three applications for the renewal of licences
to use premises as slaughter-houses were submitted to the Council
and granted.
Bacteriological Examination of Ice-Cream.
During the year 154 samples of ice-cream were tested in
accordance with the technique suggested by the Ministry of Health
and Public Health Laboratory Service in their Bulletin of March,
1947
The following table gives a summary of the results:—