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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
Various licences were granted as under :—
Primary. Supplementary.
Pasteurised 12 7
Tuberculin tested.7 5
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One of the above retailers is licensed to bottle Tuberculin tested milk and
one firm is licensed to pasteurise and bottle milk on the premises ; one firm
is licensed to bottle pasteurised milk on the premises.
Supplementary licences are granted to retailers who live outside the
Borough but who sell milk in the Borough; the primary licence is granted by
the Authority in which they reside.
Unsound Food.
The following is a list of the food surrendered for examination and retained
as unfit for human consumption :—
4651 tins of milk. 22 packets sponge mixture
208 tins of beans. 3 1-cwt. bags of dates.
1128 tins of canned fish. 228 lbs. of dates.
458 tins of canned meat. 10 packets Master Mix.
73 tins of peas. 7 packets chocolate semolina.
67 pots of jam and marmalade. 9 14-lb. boxes of dried egg.
1 cwt. box of dog fish. 1 30-lb. box sultanas
1 cwt. box of hake. 80 lbs. spaghetti
24 stone of skate. 2 lbs. lard.
11J stone of cod. 9 lbs. margarine.
5 stone headless jumbo 13 tins raising powder.
56 tins of rabbit. 7 pots of paste.
94 rabbits. 32 packets cake mixture.
410 lbs. of rabbit. 13 £-gallon tins beef soup.
1 cwt. semolina. 30 1-cwi. sacks of potatoes.
2 cwt. sago. 12 sacks of peas.
104 lbs. of assorted biscuits. 7 lbs. of ham
2 7-lb. boxes of biscuits. 14 lbs. chocolate buttons
15 lbs. Welfare biscuits. 56 lbs. chocolate caramels.
38 3-lb. bags of flour. 10 tins beetroot.
311 lbs. of sugar 5 lbs. porage oats.
17 lbs. tea. 9 lbs. split peas.
17 chickens. 12 lbs. lentils.
26 lbs of fruit cake. 2 lbs. cocoa.
159 lbs. of beef. 2 lbs. coffee.
12 lbs. of sirloin.
Together with various small consignments of miscellaneous foods. The
above items do not include the food dealt with at shops subjected to damage
on account of " Enemy action."
Shops Acts.
The Shops Acts Inspector submits a monthly report to the Public Health
Committee, and the following is a short summary from January to July, 1945 :—
Visits to shops, licensed street traders, etc. ... 1,827
Contraventions ... ... ... ... ... 1
Chemical and Bacteriological Examinations of Food.
The only examinations carried out by the Council are those for designated
milks. The matter has been discussed previously.
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