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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. Of the nine formal and
34 informal samples taken, two did not comply with the requirements of the
Order, One informal sample was found to be deficient in milk solids to the
extent of 6 7% of the specified amount a formal sample was taken from the
vendor and this sample was found to be deficient in milk solids to the extent
of 4% of the specified amount - the vendor was warned and further samples were
found to be satisfactory.
(b) PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES OR POTTED, PRESSED, PICKLED
OR PRESERVED FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE- Two new premises were registered
for the cooking of hams. At the end of the year the following 147 premises
were registered:-
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages 121
Fish curing 20
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels 5
Manufacture of canned soups 1
147
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 ice-cream or substance intended for use in
the manufacture of ice cream is likely to cause any disease communicable to
human beings. he may give notice to the person in charge thereof that, until
further notice, the ice-cream or substance in question, is not to be used for
human consumption, No action was taken under this section during the year
SECTION 24 (Sale of horseflesh) No person shall sell, or offer or expose
for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale any horseflesh for
human consumption elsewhere than in premises or in a stall vehicle or place,
over or on which a notice in legible letters stating that horseflesh is sold
there is displayed in a conspicuous position No person shall supply horseflesh
for human consumption to a purchaser who has not asked to be supplied
with horseflesh No contraventions of this section were discovered.
SECTION 26 (Cases of food poisoning to be notified). This section provides
that a registered medical practitioner on becoming aware or suspecting that a
patient whom he is attending is suffering from food poisoning, shall forthwith
notify same to the Medical Officer of Health of the district. During the year
28 cases of food poisoning were notified and in 22 cases there were positive
bacteriological findings.
(a) Outbreaks due to identified agents' There were no outbreaks in this
category
(b) Outbreaks of undiscovered cause: There was only one outbreak
consisting of two cases in one family.
(c) Single cases: In 22 individual cases, the causative organism was
identified.
(d) There were 4 individual cases where the causative organism was not
isolated.
Details of the positive bacteriological findings and age groups of the 22
persons involved are as follows:-