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butchers have installed the modern deepfreeze self service
cabinets, containing a complete range of foodstuffs of good
quality, hygienically packed and in the prime of condition
at the time of purchase. Probably the only disadvantage
arising is the short life of the food after removal from deepfreeze.
Complaints and Prosecutions
Complaints brought to this office during the year indicate
that continual supervision and regular inspections are
necessary where food is manufactured, prepared, stored or
sold to prevent contamination and to ensure that such food
does not deteriorate during-storage or delivery before sale.
Two local traders were prosecuted for selling food not
of the quality demanded. The cafe proprietors sold adulterated
milk and one in addition substituted margarine for
butter. Fines were imposed in both cases.
Food Hygiene Regulations 1955
A general improvement has taken place throughout the
retail food shops and cafes as a result of substantial alterations.
These changes have provided food rooms capable of
being easily cleansed with preparation surfaces constructed
of the new hard wearing plastics, more display cabinets
protecting the food, and improved hygiene. Some of the
multiple shops have carried out complete modern refitting,
usually in close co-operation with this department, resulting
Mi larger window areas, better through ventilation and
improved storage of food and display facilities.
During the Council's exhibition held in the Town Hall
in September considerable emphasis was given to food
hygiene by short lectures to the hundreds of housewives,
local traders and school children that attended.
onion Peeling
Food Hygiene (Amendment Regulations) 1957
1958 the Council decided that the necessary hygiene
reqierments could not be met at the houses of those
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