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subsequently installed an electric cooker and the use of
matches was discontinued.
A warning letter was also sent to the bakers of a
bread roll which was found to contain part of a cigarette.
A complaint was received from a Woolwich resident of
a dirty milk bottle delivered to her home, the milk having
been bottled in the area of another local authority. The
complaint was referred to that authority to consider the
institution of legal proceedings. The bottle contained
particles of foreign matter, probably small mould growths,
which were in contact with the milk. Legal proceedings
were subsequently instituted by the authority concerned
against this firm.
Other complaints of unsound food dealt with by the
Pood Inspectors during the year related to mould in Bread
(5 cases); mould in sausages (3 cases); mould in meat
pie (2 cases); maggot in flour and in sultanas; dirt
in a milk bottle (2 cases; in one of these the Public
Analyst reporting that the foreign body consisted of
fragments of wire); bread containing webbing; canned
meat containing string; and jam alleged to be unfit for
human consumption. It was found that the Jam had been
over-cooked during the manufacturing process.
A number of complaints of stale foodstuffs was also
investigated. Inspection of the food premises was
carried out and in some instances the remaining stocks
were withdrawn from sale.
Other complaints of alleged unsound food were taken
up with the vendors concerned and the complainants
invariably expressed themselves satisfied with the action
taken.
POOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS
The Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960 which
amend and consolidate the existing Pood Hygiene Regulations,
take account of the experience gained since 1955. The
definition of 'food handlerp' ha3 been extended to persons
who wash up or clean food equipment, and the prohibition
of smoking whilst handling open food now also includes the
taking of snuff.
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