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Condemned food is taken to the disposal point on the Sewage Farm,
where tins are thoroughly perforated and loose food is stained and mixed
with household refuse before onward transmission to the controlled tip
outside the district.
PRIVATE SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND
SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS ACT. 1955.
There is only one slaughterhouse, privately owned, operating in the
district and your inspectors maintain a high percentage of inspection "by
evening and week-end visits.
Slaughtering is carried on six days per week, the sole exception being
Friday, and the general system with regard to the timing of slaughtering is
that adult Bovines are slaughtered early in the day's work, proceeding to
the "smalls" and in this latter category, calves are usually left until last.
This accounts for the 100% inspection of Cattle and Cows, shown in the
following table, and the lower percentage of inspection for calves, despite
evening and week-end visits.
However, good co-operation exists between your inspectors and the owner
and his slaughtermen who retain for our inspection on the following day any
carcase presenting signs of disease or injury.
The majority of the condemned meat and offals is taken away by a
reputable firm for manufacture into useful by-products, e.g. fertilisers etc.
Total weight of carcase meat condemned 12,837 lbs.
Total weight of offals condemned 9,490 lbs.