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Ice Cream
Four applications were received for the registration of premises
for the sale of ice cream. These premises being satisfactory all
four applications were granted.
103 Samples were obtained and submitted for bacteriological
examination, with the following results: —
Provisional grade 1 81
„ 2 8
„ 3 4
„ 4 10
103
During the year as may be seen from the above table there were
ten grade 4 samples and four grade 3.
Of the grade 4 samples eight were from one wholesaler and two
were from one other. Of the grade 3 samples 3 were from the
wholesaler who had two grade 4's and one from one of the large
manufacturers. In the case of the large manufacturer no further
unsatisfactory samples were received, and consequently the cause
of low grading is not known but was probably due to accidental
contamination either during transit or in the retailing premises.
In the case of the other two manufacturers considerable correspondence
took place between this department and the manufacturers
also the Public Health Departments of the areas in which
they were situated. The matter was closed as far as we were concerned
by the retailers changing their source of ice cream supply
and obtaining their new supplies from one of the large manufactures.
At the present moment there are no retailers in this district selling
ice cream manufactured by the wholesaler who had eight grade
4 samples.
The only person registered in this district to manufacture ice
cream has not during the year produced any ice cream. This manufacturer
produces ice cream only very occasionally and then only
in small quantities. All the other retailers purchase their supplies
from large manufacturers.
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