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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, 1,393 visits being made in
this connection.
In a few cases the attention of the persons concerned was drawn to
contraventions of the byelaws made under section 15, Food & Drugs Act, 1938,
but in no case was it considered necessary to take statutory action.
Your sanitary inspectors continued to give advice to occupiers of food
premises on matters relating to food and general hygiene.
Communications were sent to the occupiers of 14 food premises regarding
defects found, and in each case the work was carried out after informal action.
The attention of the department was drawn on a few occasions to the
presence of a foreign body in, or contamination of, food purchased in the
district. The vendors concerned were interviewed and the circumstances fully
investigated. In two cases concerning textile fibres on a loaf of bread and a piece
of glass in a mince pie, legal proceedings were taken under section 3, Food &
Drugs Act, 1938, and the iMagistrates imposed a fine of £5 0s. Od. in each case.
In other cases a warning was given.
The amount of food surrendered and condemned as unfit for human
consumption after examination by your inspectors was 4 tons, 3 cwts., 1 qr.,
27 lbs.
The foods condemned were as follows:—
Bacon 370 lbs.
Beef 6,911 „
Cake 10 „
Cake flour 130 „
Carrots 112 ,,
Cheese 57 „
Dried vegetables 95 „
Eggs 300
Fish 724 lbs.
Fruit 3 jars
Ham 7 lbs.
Honey 2 jars
Mincemeat 22 lbs.
Mincepies 28
Mutton 11 lbs.
Oatmeal 13 „
Offal 988 „
Ox Tongues 40 lbs.
Pickles 46 jars
Pork 11 lbs.
Rabbits 52 „
Rice 3„
Sausages and sausage meat 186 „
Sugar confectionery 84 „
Tinned cheese 24 tins
„ fishpaste 1 tin
„ fruit 279 tins
„ ham 49 „
„ jam 1 tin
„ meat 150 tins
„ meat puddings 2 „
„ milk 57 „
„ pudding mixture 1 tin
„ soup 1 „
vegetables 8 tins
Condemnation certificates totalled 267.
The condemned foods were disposed of by incineration or by use for
industrial purposes.
The co-operation of the food traders in bringing to the notice of the
department the existence of suspected unsound food has been maintained.