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MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
(i) INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION.
The Council made bye-laws under Section 15, Food and Drugs Act,
1938 for securing the observance of sanitary and cleanly conditions and
practices in connection with the handling, wrapping and delivery of food
sold or intended for sale for human consumption, and in connection with
the sale or exposure for sale in the open air of food intended for human
consumption.
The Public Health Inspectors reported 15 instances of individuals
using tobacco whilst engaged in the handling of "open" food contrary to
the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960. In all instances letters
of warning were served.
The Essex County Council Act, 1952, Section 105, requires that as
from 2nd April, 1953, any person intending to use premises which were not
used immediately before that date for the sale, storage, or preparation for
sale of any food (other than milk) intended for human consumption shall
give not less than 14 days' notice to the Council of his intention so to do.
The services of two Public Health Inspectors are utilised to deal
with food preparing premises, factory canteen premises and food and drugs
sampling. During 1962, they made 8,411 inspections of food shops and
food preparing premises. 31 informal notices were served under the Food
and Drugs Act, and 39 informal notices were complied with including 15
informal notices served prior to 1962.
(ii) FOOD HYGIENE.

The practice of inculcating interest in the proprietors, directors
and staffs of food handling organisations was continued in 1962, and the
catering industry, as a whole, continues to co-operate.