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Method of Disposal of Condemned foods
All unfit foodstuffs were destroyed in the Council's Refuse
Destructor furnaces.
THE FOOD HYGIENE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1960.
758 visits were made to food premises of all types during the
year. These include 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 nine instances. Food Stalls at the fairground owned
by the Council, which was used on lease twice during the year, were
again carefully supervised, some fourteen visits being made for
this purpose. Care was again taken to ensure a satisfactory standard
of food hygiene by the caterer at the annual Enfield Show in
the Town Park.
Canteens were provided in two new factories.
Many visits were again made in connection with a number of
complaints regarding food, and drink, and amongst the complaints
investigated were those involving a fly in a cream doughnut, abnormal
odour in meat, broken glass in a milk bottle, foreign body
in bread, nail in fried fish, dirty milk bottles, lead pencil in fresh
minced beef, insects in savoury straws and bread, mouldy sausages,
pies, bacon, cakes and bread, cigarette end in kippers, insect in
sausage roll, cigarette end in meat pie, decomposing meat, discolouration
in tin of corned beef, unsound sausages, maggots on a
leg of lamb, maggots in ham, beetle in a bottle of mouthwash, and
a beetle in frozen peas.
Eight prosecutions were taken during the year under Section
2 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, and one for contraventions of
the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960.
A firm of bakers was prosecuted for selling a loaf containing
string and was fined £10 plus £5 5s. costs, and was also prosecuted
for selling a loaf containing a piece of metal and was fined £5 plus
£5 5s. costs.
A confectioner was prosecuted for selling a chocolate sponge
sandwich with stale and mouldy cream filling and was fined £5 plus
£5 5s. costs.
A delicatessen shop-keeper was prosecuted for selling a mouldy
sausage roll but successfully pleaded warranty, but the manufacturer
was fined £20 plus £5 5s. costs.
Another delicatessen shop-keeper was prosecuted for selling a
scotch egg containing rodent excreta and was fined £10 plus £3 3s.
legal fees and £6 6s. analyst's fee.