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False and Misleading Descriptions. Food advertisements and labels have been
scrutinised for false and misleading statements and descriptions. Corrective action
taken under this heading within the whole area of the County has equal effect within the
Boroughs and the work is combined with inspections made to ensure the proper operation
of the Merchandise Marks Acts and the Labelling of Food Order. Examples of cases
where corrective action was taken are:—
Television and press advertisements which suggested that a certain cheese was
a cream cheese where, in fact, it contained insufficient milk fat to be properly described
as cream cheese.
Oranges, tangerines and grapefruit described as seedless, but found to contain
seeds.
Jam cream sponge and cream doughnuts containing imitation cream.
Special Designated Milks. One Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) Licence was issued during
the year for premises in the Borough and 58 samples of designated milk were taken. All
obtained a satisfactory certificate.
Safe Milk. In addition to the foregoing, 12 samples of raw milk were procured
within this Borough and submitted to test for the presence of tubercle bacilli. None
was found contaminated.
This was a good year for food sampling, no faults of quality having been found in
any of the samples taken by the County Inspectors.
Meat Inspections
No slaughtering of meat is carried on in Southall.
Food Premises—Inspection
There was an increase in the amount of visiting to food premises during 1960. More
new shop premises with first class modern design and applying modern hygienic standards
to methods of food handling have been opened in the Borough and this helps to improve
the standard of existing food premises because of the competition for trade which ensues.
The number of food premises in the Borough by type of business is shown as follows:—
Shops 340
Greengrocers 50
Grocers 118
Confectioners 97
Fish Friers 11
Bakers 17
Butchers 35
Fishmongers 12
Catering Establishments (including Canteens) 128
Food Factories 20
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Premises required to be registered are as follows:—
Food & Drugs Act, 1955, Section 16
Fish Curing 6
Manufacture of Sausages or Preserved Food 32
Manufacture of Ice.Cream —
Sale only of Ice.Cream 148
Manufacture and Sale of Iced.Lollies —
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950, Section 11
Premises of Street Traders 9
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949
Dealer/Processors 1
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