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DISPOSAL OF CONDEMNED FOOD
There has been no change in the methods of disposing of condemned
and surrendered food noted in the report. At the large
slaughterhouse and bacon factory in the Borough all diseased or
infected carcases, and parts of carcases, are destroyed in special
plant producing inedible material — bone meal, fertiliser, etc.—
under supervision of the Council's Meat Inspectors.
Apart from condemned food material dealt with at these
slaughterhouse premises all surrendered diseased, or unsound, food
is disposed of for animal feeding purposes, or otherwise as appropriate.
FOOD COMPLAINTS
There were 30 complaints as to unsound food, etc., and in 3
cases the Council instituted legal proceedings.
Details are as follows: —
A bakery firm was fined £10 for selling bread containing
tobacco. Costs of £2 2s. Od. were awarded to the Council.
A dairy firm was fined £5 for selling milk which contained
mould. Costs of £5 5s. Od. were awarded to the Council.
Another dairy firm was fined £2 for selling milk in a dirty
bottle. £3 3s. Od. costs were awarded to the Council.
MILK
There are only two dairies in the Borough and the practice
of distributing milk wholesale in bottles from large bottling depots
to local depots, for delivery by roundsmen, or over the counter in
milk shops remains.
51 samples of milk were taken throughout the Borough and
following submission to the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry
of Health, the results of the bacteriological examinations indicated
that generally satisfactory conditions of processing and storage were
maintained.
The wholesale, pasteurising and bottling centre in Bollo Lane
has continued in operation without cause for complaint, and 8
empty bottles taken from the filling lines for examination as to
sterility, were found to be sterile.
The following licences were granted under the Milk (Special
Designation) (Pasturised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations 1949 to
1953, and the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations
1949 to 1954.