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FOOD HYGIENE
During the year 1,901 visits were made to various food premises
in the district.
Some types of premises are visited more frequently than others and
this fact is reflected in the figures for restaurants, snack bars and
butchers' shops.
The improvement in food hygiene noted in my recent reports has
continued during the year though several cases have been brought to
the notice of the Department where foodstuffs have been sold in an
unsatisfactory condition due to the staffs of the shops concerned
failing to observe the elementary rules of stock rotation.
In one case the sale of three apple turnovers, in two of which the
apple filling was mouldy, resulted at subsequent Court proceedings in
the baker concerned being fined £25 with £15 15s. Od. costs. Seven
other summonses heard at the same time relating to breaches of the
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations on the same premises resulted
in further fines totalling £140 with 21 gns. costs.
It is gratifying to note that a number of food shops are displaying
notices requesting customers to refrain from smoking, a practice I
would like to see universally adopted.
Although it is some years since they were first introduced shopkeepers
continue to ask for notices prepared by the Department and
supplied free of charge, requesting the public not to take dogs into
food shops. The canine population of the district appears to be on the
increase but it is satisfactory to observe that where a few years ago
shopkeepers were hesitant to display notices, fearing, it is presumed,
that they might offend potential customers, the majority are now only
too willing to do so.
MILK LICENCES
Five applications were received for a Dealer's (Pre-Packed Milk)
Licence under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1963.
Under these Regulations supplementary licences are no longer necessary

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