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Sale of Milk.
The number of persons registered as Distributors of Milk
totalled 16.
Under the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1960,
licences to deal in specially designated milk are now issued for a
period ending in December, 1965. The following were currently
held on 31st December, 1963:—
Pasteurised 25
Sterilised 29
Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) 22
No processing of milk takes place within the district.
There is one automatic milk vending machine in the area.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
Six samples of designated milks were taken with the following
results:—
Number passing phosphatase test 6
Number failing phosphatase test
Number passing methylene blue test 2
Number giving unsatisfactory methylene blue result
Six samples were submitted for chemical examination, all of
which proved satisfactory.
Six samples of frozen whole egg, one sample of powdered
albumen, and two samples of desiccated coconut, were sampled
from bakehouses. No salmonella organisms were isolated from
any of these samples.
ICE CREAM.
Twenty-two samples were taken during the year. Nine were
placed in Grade I, ten in Grade II, three in Grade III, no samples
in Grade IV.
Further samples were obtained from those who had sold Grade
III samples. The results were classified Grade II.