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ICE-CREAM
The number of manufacturers of ice-cream in the Borough is
now 5. 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
129 samples were taken, 83 of ice-cream manufactured in the
Borough, and 46 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
Regular slaughtering of pigs at the slaughterhouse of T. Wall
and Sons has grown during the year and has necessitated the permanent
attendance of a larger staff of the Local Authority in the
course of meat inspection, with increased hours of overtime duty.
Early in the year the slaughterhouse premises which had been
occupied mainly for the slaughter of horses for human consumption
was closed in the course of the Council's scheme for re-development
in South Acton, and this accounts for the fact that only
364 of the animals noted in the table on Carcass Inspection on
page 37 were inspected at this slaughterhouse.