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INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES
Food and Drugs Acts, 1938-1950
During the early part of the year a review was made of the respective duties
of the Pood Inspectors and the District sanitary Inspectors in relation to
Pood and Drugs Acts, 1938-50
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933
Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941
Shops Act, 1950
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 -
and the various By-laws, Orders and Regulations relating to food,
It was found in practice that it was quite impossible for the two inspectors
employed whole-time on special duties connected with food to carry out all
the duties previously allotted to them - the conditions relating to the sale of
food in street markets demanded a concentrated effort to bring them up to the
standard required, and this particular side of their work alone made heavy
demands on their time.
Accordingly, the following revised allocation of duties between the Pood
Inspectors and the District Inspectors was put into operation:-
FOOD INSPECTORS
(a) The initial inspection only and report to the Medical Officer of
Health in connection with all applications for registration, other than applications
relating to the retail sale of bottled milk and for listing under the
Pharmacy and Poisons Act and Pharmacy and Medicines Act.
(b) Street markets, including food premises in those markets, to be
visited at least monthly; street traders' storage accommodation, to be visited
once in three months.
(c) Premises used for the MANUFACTURE of ice-cream - to be visited monthly.
(d) Premises registered for bottling of milk and for the treatment of
milk in accordance with the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1949-53
to be visited monthly.
(e) wholesale food warehouses and food factories - to be visited monthly.
(f) Pood sampling (including bacteriological).
(g) Formal seizure of unsound food and the voluntary surrender of food in
street traders' stalls and shops in street markets and in warehouses and food
factories. (Circumstances may on occasion arise when it will be necessary for
either Food or District Inspectors formally to seize unsound food in any type
of premises).
(h) The Merchandise Marks Act in connection with traders' stalls.
(i) Outbreaks of food poisoning.
(j) Basement bakehouses.
(k) Investigations of food complaints.
DISTRICT INSPECTORS
(a) Butchers' shops - to be visited monthly.
(b) Pried fish shops - to be visited monthly.
(c) pish curing premises - to be visited monthly.
(d) Wet fish shops - to be visited quarterly.
(e) Jellied eel and pie shops - to be visited monthly.
(f) All outworkers associated with food to be visited at least quarterly.
(g) Registered premises - milk shops, ice-cream shops, etc., other than
those dealt with by the Food Inspectors - to be visited monthly.
(h) Restaurants, cafes, factory canteens and public houses - to be
visited at least quarterly, (Many will require more frequent inspection).
(i) Grocery and provision shops - to be visited quarterly.