[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough.
- Dudley (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1962
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1955 FOOD HYGIENE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1960 Progress in this field has been seriously restricted this year due to the demands of other departmental duties, and to the fact that only one inspector is now engaged in supervision of food premises, plus food and drug sampling duties. The fact that premises are no longer being regularly and fre- (]uently inspected means that each inspection is lengthy, involving the type of spade work which, by this stage, after seven years of hygiene regulations, should not be necessary. There is, as yet, little sign that occupiers of food premises are prepared to obey regulations implicitly and many ignore them completely until brought to task by a visit from an inspector. There is still a failure on the part of occupiers to maintain their premises at the level recpiired by the regulations and so the time of inspectors is largely taken up by this aspect of the work. So much so, that very little time, if any, is available for talks to food handlers and, perhaps more important, the examination in detail of the actual food handling techni{pies. These latter points are ecjually as im- j)ortant as ensuring that premises are structurally fit and that in- ternal surfaces and equipment are clean.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29171271_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
