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the duty of interviewing applicants who are required to show cause why
applications for registration should not be refused or existing registration
should not be revoked.
14 applications for registration in respect of 13 premises were
considered during the year 1963; all were granted in respect of the sale
only of ice cream.
(ii) ICE-CREAM (HEAT TREATMENT, ETC.) REGULATIONS, 1959.
The Council has decided, in accordance with the recommendations
of the Ministry of Health, that 4 thermometers should be provided of the
following types:—
A recording thermometer at the heat treatment stage;
An indicating thermometer at the heat treatment stage;
An indicating thermometer at the cooling stage;
An indicating thermometer at storage stage;
(iii) SAMPLING.
Samples for bacteriological examination are taken monthly from
April to September and at regular intervals during the winter months as
supplied by all manufacturers to mobile salesmen and local retailers.
Samples are repeated after unsatisfactory results. In 1963 27 samples
were submitted for examination with the following results:—
Ministry of
No. of Health % of Unsatis-
Samples Provisional Total factory
grade Samples,
23 I 85 -
2 II 7
1 III 4 -
1 IV 4
27 100
The Food Standards (Ice-Cream) Regulations, 1959, prescribed
standards for ice-cream. During 1963, no samples were submitted for
chemical analysis.