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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
Various licences were granted as under:—
Primary. Supplementary.
Pasteurised 12 7
Tuberculin tested 8 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:—
4398 tins of milk. 3 4½-stone smoked fillet.
566 „ canned meat. 7½-lb skate eye-balls.
237 ,, beans. 15 packets flour mixture.
472 „ canned fish. 23 Irish fowls.
204 ,, peas. 25-lb. sultanas.
66 ,, soup. 7-lb. ham
87 pots of jam and marmalade. 16 tins tomatoes.
35 tins of fruit. 68-lb. box chocolate biscuits.
40 pots of paste. 10 chocolate covered cakes.
20 tins of carrots. 7½-lb. swiss roll.
116-lb. Iraq dates 9-stone headless cod.
30-lb. box raisins. 50-lb. bacon.
2960-Ib. (approx.) rabbit. 854 lb. (approx.) Scotch lamb.
2 box whiting. 108 oxtails (approx. 314-lb.)
4 bags mussels. 1 turkey.
4-stone kippers. 1 bag whelks.
14-lb. soft roes. 25-lb. flaked beef suet.
6 box skate. 56-lb. macaroni
10 lb. cod fillet. 21-lb silver side.
1 box soles. 1 tin biscuits
1 „ mixed fish. 76 1-cwt. bags rolled oats.
1 megrams. 55½-lb. Camenbert cheese.
5-stone rays.
Together with various small consignments of miscellaneous foods.
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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