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Requirements relating to the standard and cleanliness
of food premises, the equipment used, and the hygienic handling
of food, are contained in the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations.
Four hundred and thirty four visits were made to premises in
order to ensure that these regulations were being observed.
In general the standard of hygiene was good and in those
instances where defects or deficiencies were found the remedy
was achieved without the need to take legal proceedings.
Food inspection.
There are no licensed slaughterhouses in Friern
Barnet and most of the local meat supply comes from the
London and other nearby meat markets. Samples of meat
offered for sale in the butchers shops were taken for
bacteriological examination and without exception these were
found to be satisfactory. Of the various foodstuffs
examined at local shops and stores the following were found to
be unfit for human consumption, surrendered and disposed of by
incineration or burial at the Council's Sewage Works:-
Chicken 42 lbs.
Pork 14 lbs.
Liver 66 lbs.
Fish 23 lbs.
Tinned meat 13 tins
Tinned fish 9 tins
Tinned vegetables 49 tins
Tinned fruit 277tins
Tinned rice 7 tins
Tinned milk 1 tin
Tinned fruit juice 2 tins
Frozen fish 4 packets
Frozen vegetables 107 packets
Frozen sponge 2 packets
Nine complaints were receivedwhich concerned either
the quality of food or the presence of some foreign material.
All these complaints were investigated in detail and also
discussed with the manufacturer or retailer of the foodstuff
concerned with the object of ensuring that every precaution
would be taken to prevent contamination of food.
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