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ICE CREAM.
Promises have been registered by the Corporation under
Section 14, Food 8c Drugs Act, 1938, as under
For manufacture,storage and sale 18
For manufacture, storage and sale
but manufacture to be limited to
ice-lollies 15
For storage and sale, but not
manufacture 83
During the year 161 visits were made to premises and
vehicles and 135 samples of ice cream wore taken for laboratory
examination for bacterial cleanliness, details being appended.
The Public Health Laboratory Service advises that it is
unwise to pay too much attention to the result of any one sample.
Judgment should be based rather on a series of samples. It is
suggested that it would be reasonable to expect about 50 per cent.
of samples throughout the year to fall into Grade I, 80 per cent
into Grades 1 or 2, not more than 20 per cent into Grade 3, and
none into Grade 4.
Owing to the large number of manufacturers whose ice-cream
was sold in the Borough during the year it was not possible to
take a series of samples from each, but as the table shows,
efforts were made to repeat unsatisfactory samples till improvement
was effected or the supply discontinued.
All retailers and manufacturers have been allotted a code
number so that results can be published each year for comparison
with previous years.
Each retailer from whom a sample was taken was supplied
with a copy of the laboratory report, and a Sanitary Inspector
visited the premises and gave advice where reports were not up
to the standard expected.
Where manufacture took place outside the Borough (as was so
frequently the case) copies of reports whether good or otherwise
were also sent to the Sanitary Inspector for the district
concerned for his information.
The Food Standards (Ice Cream) Order, 1951, became operative
on 1st March and for the first time laid down a minimum
standard of composition for ice cream.
Ordinary Ice-cream must now contain not less than 5% fat,
10% sugar and 7½% milk solids other than fat. There are
special provisions for ice cream containing fruit or fruit
pulp and for Kosher ice.
In introducing the Order, the Minister of Food made it
clear that he regards the standard as an interim one and he
proposes progressively to improve the standard as supplies of
ingredients become more plentiful.
25.
Five samples were taken to see that this standard was *
reached and all were found in order.