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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
The supervision of premises and stalls where foods are prepared, stored
or exposed for sale has been regularly carried out, 1,555 visits being made in this
connection.
In a few cases warnings were given relating to contraventions of the
byelaws made under Section 15, Food & Drugs Act, 1938, but in no case was it
found necessary to take statutory action.
Various improvements have been made in food shops particularly in regard
to the hygienic storage and display of meat products, and the provision of a
constant supply of hot water.
Your sanitary inspectors continued to give advice to occupiers of food
premises on matters relating to food and general hygiene and found them willing
to co-operate.
Communications were send to the occupiers of 19 food premises regarding
defects found, and in each case the work was carried out after informal action.
Proceedings were taken under Sections 9 and 10, Food & Drugs Act, 1938,
against a confectionery firm for selling a bun containing straw and sacking fibres.
The Justices imposed a fine of £5 0s. 0d.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human
consumption after examination by your inspectors was 7 tons, 7 cwt., 3 qrs.,
22 lbs.
The foods condemned were as follows:—
Bacon 8,780 lbs.
Beef 590 „
Confectionery 73 „
Cornflour 10 „
Chitterlings 207 „
Cheese 24 „
Dried fruits 30 „
Dried vegetables 15 „
Fish 675 „
Jam and Marmalade 19 „
Lard 18 „
Margarine 15 „
Mutton 51 „
Pork 3,106 „
Rabbit 2 „
Sausages 2 „
Spaghetti 14 „
Suet 7 „
Sugar 8 „
„ confectionery 19 „
Vermicelli 20 „
Barley Flakes 33 pkts.
Flour mixtures 178 „
French Mustard 8 bots.
Gravy cubes and powders 186 pkts.
Health salts 6 „
Salad cream 27 bots.
Sauce 6 „
Soft drinks 1
Soups 7 pkts.
Tinned Fish 11 tins
„ Fruit 83 „
„ Meat 500 „
„ Meat & Vegetables 2 „
„ Milk 80 „
„ Soup 20 „
„ Spaghetti 7 „
„ Vegetables 136 „
Condemnation certificates totalled 315, compared with 377 in 1950.
The co-operation of the food traders in bringing to the notice of the
department the existence of suspected unsound food has been maintained.