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ICE CREAM.
There are 49 premises throughout the District
registered for the sale of ice-cream. No new registrations
were granted during the year. Inspections of these
premises were made to see that the requirements of the
Food and Drugs Act and the Ice-Cream(Heat Treatment &c)
Regulations were observed. Where ice-cream was sold
from vehicles these were examined as to suitability.
Generally the standards were good and called for little
comment.
Routine sampling of the ice-cream for bacteriological
examination was continued and the results were again most
satisfactory. Specimens were placed into one of four
grades following a test as to their bacterial cleanliness.
Grades 1 and 2 are considered to indicate a satisfactory
condition and Grades 3 and 4 unsatisfactory. The 58
samples taken were placed in the following grades:-
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
54 4 Nil Nil
MILK SUPPLY.
The milk supplied throughout the District is either
pasteurised, sterilised or tuberculin-tested.
Twenty-three samples were taken during the year,
all of which were satisfactory.
Three incidents were investigated where milk was
supplied in unclean bottles. The results of the
enquiries suggested that in each case the bottles had
been misused to contain substances other than milk, and
had thereafter evaded the system of inspection at the
bottle-washing depots where such bottles are usually
taken out of use and destroyed. No complaints were
received concerning the quality of the milk supplied.
There were 19 companies or persons registered as
distributors of milk within the District, and one dairy
engaged in the pasteurising and bottling of milk.
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