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Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Section 16(1) of this Act provides that no premises shall be
used for (a) the sale, or manufacture for the purpose of sale, of
ice-cream or the storage of ice-cream intended for sale or (b) the
preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed, pickled
or preserved food intended for sale, unless they are registered under
this section for that purpose with a local authority.
During the year 30 applications for registration under the provisions
of Section 16(l)(a) and 13 applications for registration under
the provisions of Section 16( 1 )(b) were submitted to the Council.
In all cases the premises were found to be satisfactory and registration
was granted.
Milk Supply
Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959
These regulations require local authorities to keep a register of
all persons carrying on the trade of distributor in their district and
of all premises within their district which are used as dairies, not
being dairy farms.
During the year 23 applications were received from persons to
be registered as distributors of milk. In each case the certificate
of registration was granted. Twenty-five notices of cancellation of
registration were received. At the end of the year there were 220
persons and two dairies on the register.
The bulk of the milk sold by retail within the Borough is sent
out in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies and its quality
is good.
Food and Drugs Act 1955
During the year, 151 samples of milk were submitted for analysis
to which reference is made on page 38.
A Court Summons was taken out by the Council against a
trader for the sale of milk not being of the nature or of the substance
or of the quality of the food demanded and a fine of £8 and
costs of £3 were awarded by the court.
Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1963
These regulations provide for the issue of Dealers (Prepacked
Milk) Licences under certain designations and the number of
licences granted during 1966 is given below : —
Special designation Number of licences issued
" Pasteurised" 24
" Sterilised" 10
"Untreated" 10
Milk (Special Designation) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965
These regulations provide for the issue of Dealers (Prepacked
Milk) Licences under the special desienation " Ultra-Heat
Treated" and 53 applications for such licences were received
during the year.