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The wholehearted co-operation of many food handlers
for a proposal for improving food hygiene is only available if
at the same time they think it will improve business. This is
understandable to a point, but surely it is time that all
measures to prevent the avoidable risk of contamination of
food should not have to be so weighed in the balance. One
would have thought that the possibility of contamination of
our food would have been so abhorrent to the public that
legislation would have required its prohibition whether there
was a risk of injury to health or not.
Proceedings were taken against the occupier of a catering
establishment in respect of offences against the Food Hygiene
Regulations, 1955 (Regulations 6, 16, 18 and 23), and fines
totalling £45 were imposed.
Food premises in the district consist of the following:
Catering establishments, including
factory canteens and school kitchens 120
Grocery and provision shops and "general stores" 68
Greengrocers' shops 38
Butchers' shops 28
Bakers' shops 14
Milk shops 8
Fishmongers' shops 14
Sweet and confectionery shops 64
Food Preparing Premises
Two premises were registered during the year. One for
the manufacture of sausages and the other for the cooking of
fish. One registered food business was discontinued.
The register contained the addresses of 32 premises registered
under the Act for the preservation, etc., of food as
follows:—
Premises used for the manufacture of sausages,
pies, etc. 13
Premises used for the cooking of fish 10
Premises used for the cooking of bacon 9