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There are no licensed slaughterhouses in the
District and therefore no post-mortem inspection of
food animals. Of the various foodstuffs examined at
shops and stores the undermentioned was certified to
be unfit for human consumption:-
Beef 381 lbs
Lamb 15 lbs.
Kidney 69 lbs.
Fish 84 lbs.
Turkeys 28 lbs.
Chickens 54 lbs.
Tinned meat 18 tins
Tinned fish 8 tins
Tinned vegetables 26 tins
Tinned fruit 71 tins
Pickles 21 jars.
This unsound food was disposed of by incineration
or by burial at the Sewage Works.
Milk.
There are twenty persons or companies registered
to distribute milk in Friern Barnet. There is one
dairy at which milk is pasteurised and bottled.
All the milk sold in the District is either
pasteurised, sterilised or tuberculin-tested.
One hundred and fifty-six samples of the various
grades of milk were examined all of which were satisfactory.
Samples of the washed bottles from the dairy were also
examined and found to be of a satisfactory standard
of cleanliness.
Ice cream.
Seventy-five premises are registered for the
sale of ice cream.
Forty-two samples of the different products
offered for sale were examined bacteriologically and
all were found to be satisfactory.
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