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SECTION F.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Byelaws for securing the observance of Sanitary and Cleanly
Conditions and Practices in connection with the Handling, Wrapping
and Delivery of Food and Sale of Food in the Open Air, have been
adopted by the Council and came into force during 1950.
Generally speaking, the task of improving the hygiene of food
premises has been made relatively easy by the willing co-operation of
managers and owners, but in the few cases where standards are low
and there is little evidence of willingness to improve, the Food Byelaws
will be of great value, particularly as they enable the Local Authority
to deal with the actual offender (viz.: the Assistant), instead of the
person in charge of the business.
Not infrequently, the fault lies with the customer who not only
handles food exposed for sale, but is not unknown to be careless of
the owner's property.
Inspection of Food Premises (Restaurants, Hotels, Canteens,
etc.).
Following the extensive survey of food preparing premises during
1949, the inspectors made a further 443 visits and there is evidence of
continued improvement. They found no gross infringement of the
Byelaws which were adopted during the year.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938-1950.
One hundred and twenty formal and 58 informal samples were
taken during the year.
Details of these samples appear in the appendix and all samples
proved to be genuine except: —
Beef Sausages—Deficient 26 per cent, minimum amount of meat.
Beef Sausages—Sulphite 160 parts per million.
Lemon Curd—Contained no egg.
Lemon Curd—Contained no egg.
Biscuit (Malted whole wheat)—Contained very small black particles
having appearance of ash.
Warnings were given in all cases.
Unsound Food.
5 tons, 5 cwts. 2 qtrs. 5 lbs. of unsound food were surrendered
as unfit for human consumption and destroyed or used, where possible,
for animal food after suitable treatment. A list of this condemned food
will be found in Appendix 4. No food exposed for sale was found
to be unsound during the year.