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INSPECTION MID SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Food Hygiene
Inspections of the various premises in which food is
prepared, stored or sold were made to see that the provisions
of the Food and Drugs Act relating to food premises, and
the Byelaws relating to the handling of food, were being
observed In the -course of the year 572 visits were made
for these purposes As -a consequence it was possible to
bring about improvements to -premises and equipment and
generally to encourage a higher standard of food hygiene
The position in regard to the proposed Friern Burnet
Clean Food Guild remained unchanged The regulations and
codes of practice dealing with food hygiene, which were
expected to accompany new legislation and to which it was
considered desirable to have regard in preparing any scheme,
did not materialise It was thought wise to delay embarking
on the„project until the intentions of the legislation
are clear
It will be appreciated that we continue to emphasise
the importance of food hygiene whenever the opportunity
occurs, to the food handler and the public alike I hav
given a number of talks on the subject to local organisations,
while a continuous campaign is carried out in the course of
the visits to food premises
Food Inspection
There are no slaughterhouses in the District
Following the end of meat rationing and Government control
of slaughtering, local authorities were asked to ascertain
what slaughtering facilities would be required in their areas
in order to maintain the smooth distribution of home-killed
meat pending the implementation of the future policy of
moderate concentration of slaughterhouses The last
slaughterhouse to be used in Friern Barnet was closed down
some years before the war and the local meat supplies now,
as then, are obtained from the various meat markets
There are three piggeries in the District, and
animals are occasionally slaughtered at these premises
in an emergency such as sickness or injury, when it is not
practicable for them to be removed to a slaughterhouse
During the year 10 pigs were slaughtered in these circumstances
and the carcases of three, associated with an
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