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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Food Hygiene. The programme of activity followed very
substantially the same lines as in previous years. Visits
were made to the various food shops and premises, not only
to ensure that the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act
and the Byelaws were being complied with, but at the same
time to encourage high standards of food hygiene. A consequence
of these visits was that various defects and
deficiences in the premises were made good, whilst there is
no doubt that some benefit resulted from the contacts and
conversations with the food handlers.
In order to draw attention to the subject
of food hygiene displays were exhibited from time to time
in the Kiosk outside the Town Hall. Consideration was also
given to ways of stimulating further interest in this important
matter and with the full approval of the Council it
was decided to stage a Clean Food "Exhibition in the Town Hall.
Later, as it beaame apparent that new Food Hygiene Regulations
would come into effect at the beginning of 1956, it
was decided to hold the Exhibition in that year.
Food Inspection. There are no slaughterhouses in Friern
Barnet. There are, however, three piggeries where animals
are occasionally slaughtered in an emergency such as sickness
or injury, when it is not possible for them to be removed
to a slaughterhouse. There was no such emergency slaughter
of animals in 1955.
Of the food examined at the various shops
and stores the following was condemned as unfit for human
consumption:-
Beef 998 lbs.
Lamb 332 lbs.
Liver 11 lbs.
Fish 84 lbs.
Cereals 76 lbs.
Fruit 3 lbs.
Tinned Meat 15 tins.
Ham 3 tins.
Vegetables 60 tins.
" Milk 11 tins.
" Fish 6 tins.
" Tomato Puree 5 tins.
" Soup 8 tins.
" Fruit 217 tins.
" Apricot/Peach Pulp 48 tins.
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