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34
FOOD COMPLAINTS
There were 35 complaints as to unsound food, etc., and in 2
cases the Council instituted legal proceedings.
Details are as follows:—
Date of
Hearing
10.4.59
11.12.59
Offence
Hydro-carbon oil
in evaporated milk
Mould in Apple Puff
Result
Fined £10.
Costs £8.10.6.
Fined £5.
Costs £5.5.0.
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.
116 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 23
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.
Dealers' Licences:—
Tuberculin Tested Milk 18
Pasteurised Milk 42
Sterilised Milk 32