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Ice Cream.
The number of registered premises in the Borough at 31st
December, 1969 in which ice cream may be stored or from which it may
be sold is 306. 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 soldo
The table shows the results of examination of 97 samples submitted
to the Public Health Laboratory at Epsom during 1969° 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 Grades III and IV
not so. Adequate follow-up action is taken where samples fall within
the latter grades and owing to particular concentration on sampling
where reports and hygiene are not up to standard an undue number of
samples have been Graded III and IV.
Twelve of the Grade IV samples were taken from open containers
and included one from a container immediately on being opened. 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.