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morning, afternoon and the evening periods and all inspectors take part.
The staff have co-operated to the full, although it involves working additional
hours, - sometimes at no small inconvenience to the individual - with comsatory
time off when this can be arranged.
The meat inspection is carried out in accordance with the recommendations
of Memo 3/Meat.
This is a memorandum published by the Ministry of Food in 1952 and sets
out the criteria and methods of meat inspection. It replaces the old Memo
,62/Foods. The slaughterhouse is operated with a minimum of inconvenience to
the occupiers of the adjoining houses and in spite of its being sited in a
mainly residential area little or no nuisance arises.
The quality of the meat is - on the whole - very good and a competent
team of slaughtermen ensures that carcases are properly dressed in a hygienic
manner. The meat is distributed over a large area of North London, and the
home counties." Satisfactory arrangements exist for the disposal of condemned
meat and offal.
The departmental van calls at the slaughterhouse every day and the
condemned meat is collected in marked dustbins and taken to the disposal works
for processing or for destruction.
Hiring the year 15 licences to slaughter were issued under the provisions
of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
Condemned Food
From time to time the department has been called in to examine at a local
warehouse stocks of concentrated orange juice where deterioration is suspected
because of the time the juice has been in storage.
47,218 gallons of tinned orange juice were examined and of this quantity
2,538 gallons (approximately 5%) were condemned by the inspector. In
addition, a stock of orange juice in casks (approximately 4, 400 gallons) was
examined and practically the whole was found to be unfit because of fermentation.
These stocks were disposed of at the local sewage pumping station.