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50
E (2)d Food and Drugs (Milk, Dairies and Artificial Cream)
Act, 1950
The Milk (Special Designations) (Specified Areas) Order 1951
This Order came into operation on 1st October and made
it illegal in specified areas for any person to sell by retail for
human consumption, any milk other than that which may be
sold as specially designated milk in accordance with the Special
Designation Milk Statute of 1949—Milk (Special Designation)
Regulations.
Under this Order, Erith, together with many other Local
Authorities in the London and greater London district, was
scheduled a "specified area," and accordingly the necessary
action was taken to ensure that only designated milk was
retailed in the Borough. For this purpose, it was necessary
for 2 retailers correctly to describe pasteurised milk which
hitherto had been sold undesignated. The coming into force
of this Order has achieved a realisation of 30 years or more
effort on the part of Health Committees, Medical Officers and
Sanitary Inspectors to remove all undesignated milk from sale,
and in lieu thereof to provide either an efficiently heat treated
commodity or alternatively approved milk from accredited and
attested herds only.