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(L.N. 63/63), in writing of the Director granted under regulation 30 of the Food

Business (New Territories) Regulations. 1963.

Bacteriolo gical

standard of

frozen

confections

for sale.

Restriction.

or sale, eta.

of imported frozen

confections,

Frozen

confections to be heat- treated

5. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any fro confection that contains more than 30,000 bacteria per millilitre or af coliform organisms in 1/10th (0.1) of a millilitre.

6. (1) No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or adver tise for sale, any frozen confection imported into the Colony from a source of manufacture other than a source of manufacture that bas been approved by the Director.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the Director shall no approve any source of manufacture of frozen confections unless be is satisfied that heat-treatment is included in the process of manufacture of the frozen confections,

(3) In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1) in wh- tion to the publication of an advertisement, it shall be a defence for a defendant to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish. or arrange for the publication of, advertisements, be received the adver tisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.

7. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, for human consumption, or have in his possession for sale for human consumption, any frozen confection, other than red bean sherbet (ALM) or red hear before sale. popsicle (###), that has not been heat-treated:

Precautions against contamina-

tion of

frozen confections.

Frozen confections to be kept below 28"

Fahrenheit.

Frozen confections not to be stored with other articles.

Provided that nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prevent the sale, or offer or exposing for sale, of any frozen confection imported into the Colony from a source of manufacture which has been approved by the Director.

8. Every person in possession for the purpose of sale for human consumption of any frozen confection shall take all reasonable and proper precautions to prevent infection or contamination thereof.

9.

No person shall keep any frozen confection intended for sak for human consumption in any place the temperature of which presedi 28° Fahrenheit.

10. No person shall, in the course of any food business, keep any frozen confections in storage in any refrigerating device that is use! for the storage of other articles.

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IL. Every refrigerating device used in the course of any food Maintenance business for the storage of frozen confections shall, at all times, be kept of refrigera in a clean condition and maintained in good order and repair.

tors.

12. Every utensil used in the course of any food business for the Cleanliness purpose of serving or handling any frozen confection shall be kept clean of utensils. God, so far as may be, free from any risk of contamination.

13. Every cone or wafer used, or intended to be used, in any food Storage of business for the service of frozen confections shall, when not actually ice cream in use or about to be used, be kept in a dust proof container.

Coues and

wafers.

confections

14. (1) No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, for human Frozen wasumption any frozen confection except in, or directly from, the con- not to be uiser into which it was inserted on the completion of its manufacture. sold except

in the manu-

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a frozen confection that is facturer's sold for human consumption on premises in respect of which a licence containers. has been granted by the Director under the Food Business (New LN. 63/63), Territories) Regulations, 1963.

frozen

15. Every hawker of frozen confections, and every assistant, ser- Hawkers of yunt or agent of any such hawker, shall, while engaged in the bawking confections of frozen confections, be clothed in a clean uniform of washable material to wear made to a pattern approved by the Director, and shall display on his uniforme person a number, which shall be allotted to him by the Director.

PART III.

MANUFACTURE OF FROZEN CONFECTIONS.

and display numbers.

16. Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Frozen Director under these regulations and in such premises as shall be confections pecified in such licence, no person shall manufacture any frozen con- manufac lection or cause any frozen confection to be manufactured:

not ta ba

tured except under licence.

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to a frozen confection that is manufactured on premises in respect of which a licence has been granted by the Director under the Food Business (New Territories) (L.N. 63/63). Regulations, 1963, for consumption on those premises.

for licence.

17. (1) Every application for such a licence shall be made in Application writing to the Director and, subject to paragraph (2), shall be accom- panied by three copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of that part of any premises in which the applicant intends to manufacture any frozen confection, and such plan shall include partic- ulars of the following-

(a) sanitary fitments and ablution facilities;