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The Meat Inspection Regulations, 1963 made jointly by the Minister of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Pood and the Minister of Health came into operation
on the 1st October, 1963 The main provisions are that, except where the
regulations permit, carcases of animals slaughtered for sale for human
consumption must not be removed from the place of slaughter until they have
been inspected and, if passed as fit for human consumption, until they have
been marked with the mark, and in the manner, described in Sch 3. With
certain exceptions, prior notice of intention to slaughter must be given
the minimum period of this notice has been extended from three hours to
twenty four hours. Local authorities are empowered to make a charge for
inspection. Schs. 1 and 2 contain provisions as to the manner in which
inspectors are to carry out inspections and as to the circumstances in which
meat is to be regarded as unfit for human consumption.
SECTION 16 (Registration of premises - manufacture and sale of ice cream
and of sdusages, 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.
ICE CREAM, New applications to the number of sixteen for the sale of ice
cream were approved. One application was refused following the Council's
practice not to register for this purpose premises in which Greengrocery is
sold. At the end of the year the premises of 439 retailers and eleven
manufacturers were registered. The 98 samples of ice cream submitted to the
Public Health Laboratory Service for Methylene Blue Test, were reported on as
follows:-
Grade1 64
Grade2 16
Grade3 14
Grade4 4
PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OP SAUSAGES OR POTTED. PRESSED, PICKLED OR
PRESERVED FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE There was one new application for the
preservation of confectionery bakery, and at the end of the year the following
160 premises were registered
Preservation of meat and manufacture of sausages 117
Pish Curing 16
Manufacture of meat pies and jellied eels 5
Manufacture of canned soups 1
Pish Frying 18
Pood Vending Machines (Sausages) 3
160
SECTION 23 (Prevention of spread of disease by ice-cream). Every
manufacturer of, or dealer in, icecream shall, upoh 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 necessary under
this section