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(h) Milk (informal).— Contained foreign matter— dried milk
film. Referred to neighbouring Authority in whose area milk bottled
(i) Loaf of Bread (informal).— Contained a beetle. Legal
proceedings were taken and a fine of £3, plus 10s.6d. costs was
imposed.
(j) (k) and (1) Tropical Fruit Salad (informal).— All contained
an excessive proportion of tin. No action.
(iv) HAWKERS OF FOOD.
Section 103 of the Essex County Council Act, 1952, came into
operation on 2nd April, 1953, and provides that hawkers of any food, and
premises used for the storage of such food, shall be registered by the
local authority. Registration was granted to 6 persons and 3 premises
were also registered during 1964.
(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.
2 applications for registration were received and granted during
1964.
(vi) ARTICLES OF FOOD SURRENDERED.
During the year the following articles were surrendered and condemned
as being unfit for the food of man:—
Bacon, 86 lbs.; Beverages, 107 tins; Biscuits, 125 lbs; Butter, 50
lbs.; Cereals, 116 lbs.; Cheese, 37 lbs.; Cream, 12 tins; Eggs (shell) 1
gross; Fish (Wet and Dry), 392 stone; Fish (tinned), 389 tins; Fish Cakes,
10 Cakes; Flour, 52 lbs.; Fruit (tinned), 7,164 tins; Fruit (Juice), 31
tins; Game, 13 lbs.; Ice Cream, 28 brickettes; Jam (Preserves), 152 lbs.;
Jellies, 13; Lard, 9 lbs.; Meat (Fresh), 10,044 lbs.; Meat (tinned), 7,868
lbs; Meat (Pies), 38 Pies; Margarine, 24 lbs.; Milk (tinned), 744 tins;
Pastry Mix, 40 pkts.; Pickles, 84 jars; Poultry, 380 lbs.; Salt, 4'A lbs.;
Sausages, 147 lbs.; Sugar, 148 lbs.; Soups (tinned), 203 tins; Tea, 155
lbs.; Tomatoes, 4 lbs.; Vegetables (Dried), 32 lbs.; Vegetables (tinned),
392 tins.