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The importance of a high standard of hygiene in butchers' s or poulterers'
shops handling uneviscerated ducks is evident. These were all visited by the
Public Health Inspectors and the need stressed for this to be carried out on a
seperated bench or table with equipment kept for this purpose, by an employee
wearing a washable apron used only when engaged on this work, to be so engaged
only when free from other duties in or about the shop, and to pay strict attention
to washing and scrubbing of hands and sterilisation of benches and equipment after
the work has been completed.
Forty-four samples of minced meat, sausage meat, offal, etc., were also taken.
Three of these contained food poisoning organisms and special attention was given
to the possibility of cross-contamination from poultry handling.
MILK & DAIRIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS
The large milk bottling establishment at Claremont Road, NW.2. was
frequently inspected during the year and 130 bottles were taken at random from the
bottle-washing machines after having been subjected to the washing and sterilising
processes.
The bottles were subjected to bacteriological examination with the following
results:-
Satisfactory 119
Unsatisfactory 11
Ten of the unsatisfactory samples were school milk bottles which appear to
give more trouble than the ordinary pint bottle. The bottles go through a sevenstage
washer, which includes three detergent washes, the final wash reaching a
temperature of 71° C.
It is rarely that an unsatisfactory result is reported on a pint bottle sample
but school milk bottles, despite the special attention given to them by the Dairy
Company, do occasionally show unsatisfactory results. The Company attributes this
to the facts that
a) school milk bottles are rarely rinsed after use
b) these bottles have a longer life than pint bottles, the percentage
of breakages being much lower. This renders them more liable to
chipping or roughening of the internal surfaces due to mis-use and
so more prone to build-up of contamination.
c) mis-use of such bottles is not uncommon, a variety of objects being
recovered from them on return, including plants, earth and coloured
sand.
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