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Ice Cream The Ice Cream (Heat Treatment etc.) Regulations, 1959
The manufacture of soft ice cream in small specially designed
freezing machines that can be installed in sales vehicles and shops,
is the latest development in this trade.
Prospective users of these machines will, if inexperienced,
require advice on the use, maintenance and cleansing of this type
of equipment and consideration has been given by the department
to the formation of a Code of Practice applicable to the handling
of this commodity.
One hundred and twenty premises are registered for the sale
of ice cream within the district and although two premises are also
registered for the manufacture of this product, no manufacturing
has been carried out for some years.
A total of 75 samples of ice cream was examined for bacterial
quality by submission to the methylene blue reduction test, and
placed in the following provisional grades :—
Grade I 73
Grade II 1
Grade III —
Grade IV 1
These results can be considered very satisfactory.
Meat Slaughterhouses Act, 1958
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1958
Public Health (Meat) Regulations 1924-1955
With the closing of the slaughterhouse at Netherne Hospital,
there are now no slaughtering facilities within the area of the
Urban District and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
has accepted the Council's view that there is no future need for
such facilities in the district.
Meat inspection is thus restricted to supplies in retail shops
which are obtained in the main from the Croydon abattoir and
Meat Market and the Smithfield Market.
There are 32 butchers' shops in the District, all registered for
the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed,
pickled or preserved meat under the provisions of Section 16 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
Unsound Food
The following is a list of foodstuffs including drink which after
inspection were classified as unfit for human consumption.
The quantities are in excess of a normal year as a result of
the flooding incident in May, 1961.
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