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Fulham 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]

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Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk)
Regulations 1949-1953.
Milk (Special Designtion) (Raw Milk) Regulations. 1949 - 1954.
To comply with the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and
Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949, Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised) and
Pasteurised Milk must not give a reading of more than 2.3 Lovibond blue
units in the phosphatase tests and must not decolourise methylene blue in
thirty minutes in the laboratory at atmospheric shade temperature not
exceeding 65°F. until between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on the day following that
on which the sample was collected.
To comply with the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations,
1949, Tuberculin Tested and Accredited Milk must not decolourise methylene
blue within 4½ hours if the sample is taken between 1st May and 31st October9
or within 5½ hours if taken between 1st November and 30th April.
Tuberculin Tested (Sterilised) and Sterilised Milk when submitted to
the turbidity tests must show no sign of turbidity.

Table: The following table gives details of these samples:-

The following table gives details of these samples:-

Grade of Milk.No. of samples testedPhosphatase testMethylene testTurbidity test
PassedFailedPassedFailedPassed
Tuberculin tested (Pasteurised).1717-17-_
Pasteurised.7171—71-
Sterilised.2121