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food to which it relates. This work is of benefit to the
whole County irrespective of where within the County offences
may be detected. During the year under review corrective action
has been secured in respect of salmon with potato salad,
crystallized jelly pineapple slices pure egg mundelech, cherry
juice, lime juice, imitation cream cream filled biscuits, cream
filled Easter eggs and cheese. In every case the person
responsible agreed to make necessary suitable amendments to
labels as a result of my representations. In no case was it
necessary to institute proceedings.
Safe Milk: 7 samples of raw milk were procured in your District
and submitted to test for the presence of tubercle bacilli.
All were found to be free of such contamination.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS 1949
Thirty nine Dealers' Licences and twenty-nine Supplementary
Licences were granted under the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw
Milk) Regulations 1949 and the Milk (Special Designation)
(Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949.
Samples of milk are taken for examination by the Middlesex
County Council who are the Food and Drugs Authority in this area.
ICE CREAM
There are in the District ninety-five premises registered
for the sale of ice cream and one for the manufacture of ice
cream.
Thirty eight samples were taken during the year for
examination by the Methylene Blue Test. These were placed in the
following grades:-
Grade I 33 Grade III 0
Grade II 4 Grade IV 1
Samples of ice cream for Chemical Analysis are taken by
the sampling officers of the Middlesex County Council.
PET SHOPS
There are 7 premises licensed under the Pet Animals Act,
1951. They were visited and inspected during the year and found
to be maintained in a satisfactory condition.
FOOD POISONING
There was no serious outbreak of food poisoning in this
District during 1957.
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
15 premises were disinfected after cases of infectious
disease.
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