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Bacteriological Examination of Foodstuffs
Samples submitted for bacteriological examination numbered 214.
These comprised 53 samples of desiccated coconut, 77 imported dried and
frozen egg, 19 ice cream, 4 ice lollies, 8 tuberculin tested (pasteurised)
milk, 10 pasteurised milk, 1 sterilised milk, 10 cream pastries, 3 synthetic
cream, 1 beef sausages, 1 animal food, 8 pork luncheon meat, 3 Chinese
frozen prawns, 2 cooked chicken, 1 cooked steak, 1 dried milk powder and
12 swabs from utensils at a bacon factory.
Suspected Food Poisoning
Following a complaint that four persons were ill with sickness and
diarrhoea after eating chocolate eclairs purchased at a local bakery,
investigations at the bakehouse revealed that, due to the pastrycook
being absent on holiday, all the cakes and pastries sold in the shop that
week had been manufactured and supplied by another baker in the Borough.
Sampling of assorted cream pastries, synthetic cream, etc. at this bakehouse
showed similar contamination to that found in the eclairs. Nasal
and skin swabs were taken from employees at the bakery and Staph.aureus
found to be present in four swabs, three from bakers and one from a shop
assistant. The affected employees were requested to attend their doctors
for treatment, who were also informed.
Examination of faeces from the affected persons proved to be negative.
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations. 1960
Inspections of food premises by the Fublic Health Inspectors (Food)
to ensure that the provisions of the Food Hygiene Regulations were being
observed, numbered 3,992 during the year, Notices served requiring works
to be done to comply with the Regulations totalled 404. No applications
were made during the year for certificates exempting premises from complying
with any of the provisions of the Regulations. Notes on the Regulations
for the advice of caterers printed in Italian, Greek, Urdu, Bengali,
Chinese and Turkish, were distributed together with "Wash Your Hands"
notices in the same languages to Cafe proprietors in the area.
Legal proceedings were instituted against the proprietor of a grocer's
shop for using a food room which communicated directly with a room which
contained a sanitary convenience. The defendent was fined £25 with
£3.13.0 costs.
Bakehouses and Bakers Shops
Summonses issued against the proprietor of a baker's shop for selling
bread containing a foreign body, resulted in a fine of £10 with costs of
£5.15.0 being imposed.
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