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ICE CREAM AND LOLLIES
There are 2 manufacturers and 140 retailers of Ice Cream
registered in the Borough, including 48 itinerant vendors.
One of the two manufacturers operating in the Borough
lanufactures for national distribution.
With this large national distributor supplying ice cream
n bulk and in prepacked units for resale a constant check
upon chemical and bacteriological quality of this product is
ssential. Our samples are submitted to the Public Health
Laboratory controlled by the Ministry of Health.
During the year there were some complaints from local
authorities in the distribution area with regard to coliform
findings resulting from bacteriological examination. At no
time was the contamination reported serious, nor did it
accord with the laboratory results we were receiving in
Barking. It is unreasonable to expect that all laboratories
will produce the same results in detail and it may be that
wide examination of supplies distributed nationally is a
good thing, notwithstanding the control work in the area of
production. At no time was there any complaint about the
chemical quality of the product.
Lollies
The factory where ice cream is produced for distribution
on a national scale also manufactures Lollies, with a similar
distribution.
The products were regularly sampled and found free
from lead contamination.
During the year 47 samples of Ice Cream have been
submitted to the Methylene Blue examination.
Sports on the samples submitted are recorded as under:-
Fourteen samples of Ice Cream were obtained for
chemical analysis and all were reported to be satisfactory.
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