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Bakehouses.
Twenty-one premises came under inspection on 64 occasions.
The standard generally is good, although four of the premises
required notices for cleansing and repairs.
Milk.
Following the change of legislation referred to in my last
report, whereby the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
became responsible for the execution and enforcement of regulations
relating to dairy farms, the Food and Drugs (Milk, Dairies
and Artificial Cream) Act, 1950, was introduced at the end of the
year and came into force on 1st January, 1951. The object of
this Act was to consolidate most of the enactments relating to
milk, dairies and artificial cream.
Fifty-nine visits were made to the twelve registered dairies
in the Urban District and the following Licences were issued in
respect of the sale of milk having a special designation :
Tuberculin Tested—Dealers Licences 12
Supplementary Licences 2
Pasteurised— Dealers Licences 11
SupplementaryLicences 3
Sterilised— Dealers Licences 21
Supplementary Licences 2
Thirty-four samples of these milks were sent to the
Pathological Laboratory for examination and all passed the
appropriate tests.
Ice Cream.
At the end of the year, there were 87 premises registered
for the sale of, and five for the manufacture of Ice Cream.
One hundred and seventy-six visits were paid to these premises
and a total of 43 samples were submitted for analysis. On the
whole these were satisfactory, but reference is made on Page 35
to alleged "cream" ices which contained a negligible amount
of butter fat.
Intimation of the introduction of a legal standard for ice
cream was given at the end of the year but the Order did not
come into operation until 1st March, 1951.
Thirty-five samples subjected to the Methylene Blue Test
were graded as follows :
Grade I 8
Grade II 12
Grade III 12
Grade IV 3