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THE FOOD HYGIENE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1960.
686 visits were made to food premises of all types during the
year. These included school and factory canteens, public houses,
bakehouses, ice-cream shops and vehicles, hawkers stalls and
storage premises. Improvements of a general character were
effected in thirteen cases. Food stalls at a fair on a Council owned
site within the Borough, which is leased on occasions to a firm of
showmen, were carefully supervised. Also, care continued to be
taken to ensure that the caterer at the Annual Enfield Show in the
Town Park maintained a standard required by the Regulations.
One additional factory canteen was provided during the year
and another rebuilt on modern lines following damage by fire. A
new pavilion was provided by a Sports and Social Club, replacing
premises which were not of such a high standard.
Many visits were made in connection with a number of complaints
regarding food and drink and amongst the complaints
investigated were those involving foreign bodies in bread, china in
meat, dirt in a tin of gooseberries, wire in sausage, glass in bread,
paper in ice lolly, deposit in milk bottle, foreign body in fish, unsound
crab, insect in Christmas pudding, maggots in bacon, dirty
biscuits, dirty bread, blue stain on potato crisps, staining on corned
beef, mouldy sausages, mould on a steak and kidney pie, mouldy
luncheon meat, mouldy bread, abnormal smell in ham.
Eight prosecutions were taken during the year under Section
2 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
A grocer was prosecuted for selling a mouldy loaf, and was
fined £30 plus £5 5s. 0d., costs.
The same grocer was prosecuted for selling chocolate containing
insect larvae and was fined £5 plus £5 5s. 0d., costs.
This grocer was prosecuted for the third time for selling mouldy
sausages and was fined £30 plus £5 5s. 0d., costs.
A baker was prosecuted for selling a loaf containing a dead
fly, but the case was dismissed.
This baker was later prosecuted for selling a loaf containing a
metal screw and was fined £20 plus £5 5s. 0d., costs.
Another baker was prosecuted for selling a loaf containing a
piece of metal and was fined £10 plus £3 3s. 0d., costs.
A third baker was prosecuted for selling a fruit loaf containing
a piece of cloth and was fined £5 plus £3 3s. 0d., costs.