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Food privately purchased, and alleged by the purchaser to be unsound
Instances of alleged unsound or contaminated food sold to the
public which came to our notice were investigated, and reported to the
Public Health Committee. Details are appended:—
January, 1962
March, 1962
April, 1962
June, 1962
September, 1962
October, 1962
alleged complaint
Two dirty milk bottles.
Metal in mince pie
Mould in ginger beer.
Glass in margarine.
Mercury in boiled sweet.
Maggot on sausage.
Mould on wrapped sliced loaf.
Mineral oil in bread
Mould on puff pastry.
Mould on sausages.
Insect on wrapped bread.
Insect in frozen peas.
result
Evidence did not warrant
instituting legal proceedings
Manufacturer fined £25 and
£15 15s. costs.
Warning letter to Manufacturer.
Investigation showed contamination
could not have
occurred at place of manufacture.
A warning letter to Manufacturer.
No evidence to prove contamination
at place of
manufacture.
Warning letter to baker.
Warning letter to baker.
Vendor fined £10 and £5 5s.
costs.
Vendor fined £10 and £1010s.
costs.
Baker fined £10 and £3 5s.
costs.
No evidence to show that
contamination occurred at
place of preparation.
Ice Cream
Twenty-one samples of Ice Cream were submitted to chemical
analysis during 1961 and all were found to comply with the statutory
standard for this product.
Seventeen samples were submitted to bacteriological examination,
as a result of which the samples are graded into four degrees of bacterial
cleanliness. The results were as follows:—
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
16 1 — —
Only samples falling into Grades 3 and 4 are regarded as unsatisfactory,
indicating some bacterial contamination either in the
manufacture or the retail serving of the product.
Rent Act, 1957
The details of the administration of this Act were referred to fully
in the 1957 Annual Report.
Four applications were received for Certificates of Disrepair
during the year 1962, bringing the total number of applications to
150 since the Act came into operation in June, 1957.
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