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"Ordinary" Milk: Vendors of milk can legally
sell milk which has been pasteurised, without
labelling the bottles and receptacles with the
description "Pasteurised Milk." The only raw
milk sold in Fulham is that sold under licence
in accordance with the Milk (Special Designations)
Order, 1923, as "Certified," "Grade A (Tuberculin
Tested)" or "Grade A."
The milk sold in the Borough with no special
designation on the receptacles is really pasteurised
milk although not labelled as such.
There are 201 vendors of fresh cows' milk (not
including sterlized milk) and all of them sell milk
which has been pasteurised. In only 17 cases,
however, are the vendors licensed under the Order
for the sale of Pasteurised Milk.
The milk described as "ordinary" milk in these
tables of bacteriological examinations is therefore
milk which has been pasteurised. In my opinion,
although pasteurised milk is safer than raw milk
under existing circumstances, the law should be
amended so that milk which has been pasteurised
or treated by heat should not be sold without
the fact being disclosed by means of a label on
the receptacle, otherwise the public do not realise
that they are buying milk which has been heated,
and which should not be subject to further heat
if the vitamin content is to be preserved.
No bacteriological standards can be insisted
upon unless the milk is sold as "Pasteurised
Milk" under licence in accordance with the Order.
Thirteen samples of "ordinary" milk were
examined bacteriologically and the results will be
seen on referring to the table (pages 111 and 112).
My Annual Report for 1932 gives the results
of the bacteriological examination of Grade A and
sterilised milks, samples of which were not examined
bacteriologically during 1933.