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confectionery, sausage rolls, cake mixture and tomatoes, dirty
milk bottles (two cases), unfit chocolates, semolina, pears, sauce
and liver,
The following foods, which had been the subject of complaint
were found to be not unfits meat pie (the allegedly contaminated
part was found to be fat); eggs, meat, cheese and lemonade, which
proved satisfactory on laboratory test.
UNSOUND FOOD: EXAMINATION OF FOOD SUSPECTED OF BEING UNSOUND
The routine examination of food suspected of being unsound
was continued throughout the year. Here the co-operation of the
food traders is, of course, very important, and numerous requests
are received from traders for an inspection of suspected foodstuffs.
If found to be unfit the food is voluntarily surrendered and
Condemnation Certificates issued.
Altogether, 31,795 articles of food, weighing approximately
65 tons were condemned as unfit during the year, the majority of
these articles, weighing approximately 53 tons, being from the
large Abattoir in the Borough.
LICENSING OF SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND SLAUGHTERMEN
There are two licensed slaughterhouses in the Borough, one
being the Garland Road Abattoir through which large numbers of
animals pass each year. The other in Herbert Road is not being
used at the present time.
Seven slaughtermen's licences were issued by the Council
during the year to men working at the Garland Road Abattoir.
MEAT INSPECTION
During 1957, 479 cows were slaughtered, 435 of which were
for export to Italy, About 1,500 New Zealand lamb carcases were
reconditioned at a cold 3tore in the Borough; the carcases had
been damaged as a result of a collision in the Panama Canal, Only
a small number of the carcases so damaged were found unfit for
human food,
Whilst fewer calves were inspected in 1957, over 11,000 more
pigs and nearly 7,000 more sheep and lambs were inspected than in
the previous year.
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