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Ice Cream.
The number of registered premises in the Borough at 31st December,
1968 in which ice cream may be stored or from which it may be sold is
262. This figure includes one producer. In addition to these
dealers and producer there are other premises which are not required
to be registered such as restaurants, canteens and cinemas where ice
cream is sold.
The following table shows the results of examination of 63
samples submitted to the Public Health Laboratory at Epsom during
1968. Owing to numerous factors governing the hygienic quality of
ice cream, undue attention is not paid to the bacteriological results
on any single sample. Those which are placed within Grades I and
II are considered to be satisfactory and those within G-rades III and
IV not so. Adequate follow-up action is taken where samples fall
within the latter grades.
The G-rade IV sample was from an open container. The majority
of the samples taken were of unwrapped ice cream which, being
exposed is far more liable to contamination. Unless great care is
taken to keep scoops in a hygienic condition and containers covered
when not serving loose ice cream, the risk of bacteriological contamination
is increased.
GRADE
I II III IV Total
Ice Cream 52 6 4 1 63
Meat and Other Foods.
There are no slaughterhouses in the Borough and the retail
shops receive their meat from Smithfield and from the local wholesale
depots. Some home killed meat comes from the modern abattoir at
Guildford.
There are nine wholesale meat depots in the Borough, the main
group being situated in The Bittoms, with three in Wood Street and
one in Cambridge Road. The meat handled includes fresh meat from
within the British Isles and imported meat from Europe, South America
and Australasia.