CONTAMINATION OF FOOD.
OFFENDING GREENGROCERS. VEGETABLES IN DOORWAY. To expose food for sale in a manner that does not safeguard it from contamination is an offence against the city bylaws, but prosecutions appear to be necessary to compel neglectful shopkeepers to do their duty. Here and there greengrocers are flagrant offenders. The majority who use their doorways for displaying their goods have benches upon which they place them, but others make no pretence of raising them beyond the reach of animals. Yesterday one suburban shop had vegetables outside the doorway on the ground-levei, the cases simply being tilted against the wall. Others nearby were little better in their arrangements. Common sense ought to indicate that shops which proclaim their neglect of the most elemental laws of hygiene lose trade. Many people would not dream of entering such a shop, but in spite of the dictates of common sense, there is a type of shopkeeper that must be compelled to be cleanly in his handling of foods. A "clean up" week among the greengrocer shop 3 is indicated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 14
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