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made by the ice cream industry during recent years, in regard
to standards of cleanliness and improvements in quality.
The Stands provided by the Ministry of Health and
the Central Council for Health Education showed the causes
of food poisoning illustrated by bacterial cultures, charts and
photographs, etc. Personal hygiene and the protection it
affords being strongly emphasised.
The exhibit of the Ministry of Food directed attention
to the Model Byelaws which have been adopted by the three
Authorities. The centre unit of this exhibit being a m del
of a street with two shops—the good shop and the bad shop—
selling groceries, provisions and meat.
Preservation of Food consisted of refrigerated display
cabinets containing meat and provisions and a refrigerated
fish slab shown in actual working order. Also an electric
refrigerator and other electrical equipment relating to cleanliness
in food handling was shown.
The Health Department's exhibits dealing mainly with
food inspection showed the steps taken by Local Authorities
to safeguard the food supplies to the public. Illustrated by
specimens.
An item which proved of great interest to the younger
visitors was the Infestation Control Stand showing something
of the work of the Infestation Control Division of the Mini try
of Agriculture and Fisheries, which included, among other
things, a number of live exhibits of the many pests which
attack food.
A Film Unit provided by the Ministry was in operation
during the week, and films appropriate to the occasion were
shown.
Other exhibits were Metal in Food, a working electronic
Metal Detector depicting the method of detecting minute
quantities of metallic impurities in food; Welfare Foods and
School Meal Service.
A fine spirit of co-operation was shown by all the exhibitors
and the tastefully arranged stalls were both educational
and attractive.
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