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(v) REGISTRATION OF PREMISES USED FOR THE PREPARATION
OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES, OR POTTED, PRESSED, PICKLED
OR PRESERVED MEAT, FISH OR OTHER FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE.
Section 80 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, requires registration
of such premises.
1 application for registration was received and granted during 1963.
(vi) ARTICLES OF FOOD SURRENDERED.
During the year the following articles were surrendered and condemned
as being unfit for the food of man:—
Bacon, 13 lbs.; Beverages, 31 tins; Biscuits, 77 lbs.; Butter, 33
lbs.; Cereals, 165 lbs.; Cheese, 41 lbs.; Cream, 17 tins; Eggs (Shell),
77 doz.; Fish (Wet and Dry), 102 stone; Fish (Tinned), 734 tins; Flour,
133 lbs.; Fruit (Tinned), 2,022 tins; Game, 14 lbs.; Ice Cream, 20 brickettes;
Jam (Preserves), 32 lbs.; Jellies, 17; Lard, 3 lbs.; Meat (Fresh),
2,455 lbs.; Meat (Tinned), 1,077 lbs.; Meat (Pies), 21; Margarine, 14 lbs.;
Milk (Tinned), 83 tins; Pastry Mix, 5 packets; Pickles, 30 jars; Poultry,
124 lbs.; Salt, 3 lbs.; Sausages, 7 lbs.; Sugar, 15 lbs.; Soups (Tinned), 38
tins; Tea, 49 lbs.; Tomatoes, 1 lb.; Vegetables (Dried), 16 lbs.; Vegetables
(Tinned), 208 tins.
(vii) FOREIGN BODIES IN FOOD.
21 complaints (including 5 instances referred to in paragraph (iii)
Sampling) were received during 1963 of the presence of foreign bodies in
foodstuffs; letters of warning were sent in 5 cases and legal proceedings
taken in 5 cases and fines totalling £15, plus £18.13s.0d. costs were
imposed.
(viii) FOOD POISONING.
By virtue of Section 82 of the Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, food
poisoning became compulsorily notifiable in Ilford as from 1st October,
1938. It is also notifiable under Section 26, Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
In 1963, 36 notifications were received.
There were 13 family outbreaks and 8 single cases.
The Causual organisms were identified as follows: —