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Environmental Health
were carried out with all the necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to health. By arrangement
with H.M. Customs meat and meat products are detained pending inspection and other foods
are examined when considered necessary. For this purpose it is necessary that Public Health Inspectors
are on call duty the whole twenty-four hours to maintain an adequate inspection service.
During the year the new Cargo Terminal which is situated in the administrative area of the
U.D.C. of Staines came into use. As a result the majority of food imports, for inspection, became
the responsibility of that authority. At the end of the year two of the larger bonds situated in this
Borough were still operating.
Some 233 tons of food were inspected during the year involving 765 inspections. Details of the
various foods inspected and of food surrendered as unfit are shown in Table below:—

One consignment of meat not accompanied by an Official Certificate was detained and subsequently
destroyed.
As part of control on imported food, samples are taken for both bacteriological and chemical
examination. Unsatisfactory samples were so classified by reason of high bacterial counts. Importers
and Exporters are advised of unsatisfactory results and action is requested for an improvement in
the standard of the product.