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ICE-CREAM
The number of manufacturers of ice-cream in the Borough is
now 6. Each of them is equipped to produce pasteurised ice-cream,
and production is in every way in accord with the Ice-Cream
(Heat Treatment etc.,) Regulations, 1947/1952. There are 129
premises where ice-cream is not manufactured, but where the commodity
is sold in the main from pre-packed stocks. During the year
32 samples were taken, 26 of ice-cream manufactured in the
Borough, and 6 from shops or itinerant vendors trading in icecream
manufactured outside the Borough.
The high bacteriological standard reflected in the results of
examination of samples of ice-cream, together with inspection of
plant and premises, has shown that processing and storage
conditions are satisfactory and well maintained.
MEAT INSPECTION AT SLAUGHTERHOUSES
The amount of meat inspection at the two slaughterhouses in
the Borough has grown during the year, and the necessary work of
meat inspection was stepped up considerably. Some 150 hours of
overtime inspection duty were carried out at the slaughterhouse of
T. Wall & Sons Ltd., Atlas Road, the time of this particular duty
being reduced during the year as a result of night slaughtering
and the introduction of shift work by the inspectors. At Western
Abattoir also decontrol made again possible local slaughtering of
food animals with resultant overtime in inspection duty of some
165 hours.