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SECTION 15 (By-laws as to handling and sale of food). By-laws with
respect to handling, wrapping, etc. of food, and the sale of food in the
open air made by the London County Council in 1952 are still in operation.
The matter contained in these Regulations is, however, fully
covered by the Food Hygiene Regulations, and all legal proceedings were
taken under the Regulations.
SECTION 16 (Registration of premises - manufacture and sale of icecream
and of sausages, etc.) This section provides that no premises
shall be used for the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale,
of ice cream or the storage of ice-cream intended for sale, or the
preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed, pickled, or
preserved food intended for sale unless they are registered under this
section for that purpose by the local authority.
(a) ICE CREAM. Twenty new applications for the sale of ice-cream
were approved, and at the end of the year the premises of 381 retailers,
and 12 manufacturers were registered. A total of 66 samples of icecream
were submitted to the Public Health Laboratory Service for bacteriological
examination (Methylene Blue Test) and were reported on as
follows:-
Grade 1 1-27
Grade 2 2-24
Grade 3 - 6
Grade 4 - 9
Samples in Grades 3 and 4 are regarded as unsatisfactory, more
especially when they continue to fall into these grades. In such cases
repeat samples were taken and detailed investigations were carried out
at all stages of manufacture and handling with a view to the location of
faulty methods at one or more stages of treatment.
The Food Standards (Ice Cream) Order 1953. This Order provides for
the food content of ice-cream to be not less than 5 per cent. fat, 10
per cent. sugar, and 7½ per cent. milk solids other than fat. The nine
formal and 22 informal samples taken all complied with the requirements
of the Order.
(b) PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES OR POTTED, PRESSED,
PICKLED OR PRESERVED FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE. Following cessation
of business three premises were removed from the register. Two new
premises were registered, one for the preparation and manufacture of
sausages and the other for the cooking of hams At the end of the
year the following 145 premises were registered:-
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages 119
Fish curing 20
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels 5
Manufacture of canned soups 1
145
SECTION 23 (Prevention of spread of disease by ice - cream). Every
manufacturer of, or dealer in, ice cream shall. upon the occurrence of
certain diseases among the persons living or working in or about the
premises on which the ice-cream is manufactured, stored or sold, forthwith
give notice thereof to the Medical Officer of Health. If the
Medical Officer of Health has reasonable ground for suspecting that any