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Section 9—Sale of Food Unfit for Human Consumption
Complaints were received as to foreign matter in foodstuffs which
included:
Insect eggs in milk bottle String in bread
Grease in bread Mould in meat pie
Warnings were given as appropriate, since the circumstances did not
justify legal proceedings.
Inspection of Food
The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or
unwholesome and unfit for human food were surrendered and destroyed
or so disposed of as to prevent them from being used for human food :
lbs. ozs.
Cake—Biscuits 3 12
Cereals 3 12
Cream 7 7
Cheese 165 —
Eggs 11 —
Fruit Juice 35 —
Jam—Marmalade 48 —
Fish 218 5
Fruit 388 11
lbs. ozs.
Meat 5,753 8
Milk 381 6
Mincemeat 5 —
Pickle — II
Pudding 1 4
Soup 39 13
Spaghetti 4 10
Sugar 19 8
Syrup 5 4
Vegetables 471 3
Total weight 3 tons, 7 cwts., 2 qrs., 3 lbs., 2 ozs.
These stocks were disposed of by burning in the Council's Refuse
Destructor.
Inspection of Food Premises
Details of the visits of inspection of food premises and the resulting
remedial action taken are shown in Table 9.
Food Hygiene
Although the new Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955, have further
strengthened the hands of the Sanitary Authorities in raising the standard
of catering practices, freedom from food-borne illness still rests and will
always rest, on education of the trade and general public in the principles
of food hygiene and their readiness to translate that knowledge into
practice. Every practicable means is taken to assist food handlers to this
end both by the printed and spoken word through the use of leaflets, posters,
codes of practice and informal talks to small groups of food trade employees.
It is encouraging to note that in the last year or so the instances coming to
our notice of food sold to the public in an unwholesome condition have
very materially decreased.
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