Twentieth Annual Report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan: For the Year Ending June 30, 1913 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Twentieth Annual Report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan: For the Year Ending June 30, 1913

There were employed during the year on the average, eight regular food inspectors whose duty it was to inspect grocery stores, restaurants, hotels and other places where food is stored or sold; four dairy in spectors whose business it is to inspect the milk supply of cities and also the creameries and cheese factories of the state; two drug inspectors whose duty it is to inspect the drug products Of the state. These in spectors made a total number of inspections. Of these, were inspections of grocery stores and other food supply institutions; 1715 were inspections of hotels and bakeries, 4072 were inspections of farm dairies contributing to city milk supplies and 2536 were inspections of drug stores.

During the latter part of the year I appointed two inspectors whose duty it was to inspect cremeries and cheese factories only and there was inspected during the year 425 creameries and cream stations; sixty cheese factories, 398 dairies which supplied the creameries and cheese factories, and 478 dairies which contributed to the furnishing of city milk supplies. In this connection I would state that we have available funds for the appointment of about four to six dairy ia spectors. It is hardly necessary for me to state that the inspection of all the dairies in the state by this small force is absolutely impossible. As a result they confine their operations largely to inspecting city and village milk supplies which have no local inspector of their own. As most of the large cities Of the state now have local milk inspection. The department does not intend to inspect such supplies unless complaints are made to us when we promptly investigate them and endeavor to correct the conditions complained of.

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