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The Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations, 1957. These regulations amend
regulation 7 of the 1955 Regulations (which restricts the giving out of food
for preparation or packing in domestic premises). The operation of the
original regulation 7 in relation to shrimps, prawns and onions had been
postponed until 1st January, 1958, The new regulation 7, which is to apply
to shrimps, prawns and onions on 1st June. 1958 permits the giving out of
shrimps, prawns and onions for peeling on domestic premises if the premises
are registered for the preparation of the food in question with the local
authority under section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, and certain other
requirements are complied with. These requirements include -
(a) a periodic check by the person giving out the food that the worker is
able to maintain proper standards,
(b) the cleanliness of equipment and premises,
(c) the provision of a water supply and wash hand basin,
(d) the protection of food from risk of contamination, and
(e) the observance of cleanly practices by persons engaged in the handling
of the food and the action to be taken where they suffer from,
or are the carriers of certain infections.
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 operative, 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 ice-cream
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 Fourteen new applications for the sale of ice-cream were
approved one which related to a greengrocer s shop was refused, and at the end
of the year the premises of 389 retailers and 11 manufacturers were registered
A total of 101 samples of ice cream were submitted to the Public Health Laboratory
Service for bacteriological examination (Methylene Blue Test), and were
reported on as follows:-
Grade 1-56
Grade 2-18
Grade 3 - 9
Grade 4-18
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