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Milk (Special Designations) Regulations. 1956/1946.
The above regulations provide for licensed dairymen to
use the designation tuberculin tested, accredited, or pasteurised,
in connection with the sale of milk.
During the year, particulars of licenses granted were
as follows:-
Principal. Supplementary.
Dealers licensed to bottle
and sell tuberculin
tested milk .. 1
Dealers licensed to sell
tuberculin tested
milk 22 4
Dealers licensed to sell
pasteurised milk '. 71 4
Twenty samples of tuberculin tested milk were submitted
for examination, and of these four failed to pass the prescribed
tests.
Eight samples of tuberculin tested (pasteurised) milk and
sixty-eight samples of pasteurised milk were submitted for examination.
One of the tuberculin tested (pasteurised) samples
failed to pass the prescribed tests, but all the pasteurised milks
were found to be satisfactory.
In March, th<- Milk (Special Designations) Regulations,
1946, cam<~ into operation. Prior to this date, it was a requirement
that tuberculin tested milk (pasteurised) and pasteurised
milk must not contain more than thirty thousand and one hundred
thousand bacteria per ml. respectively, but with the coming into
force of the 194 6 Regulations these standards were abolished, and
the phosphatase and methylene blue tests were substituted for
these grades of milk.
Heat Treat Milk (Prescribed Tests) Order. 1944.
Under Defence Regulation 55G, (restrictions on the sale
of raw milk), the Minister of Pood may specify areas in which
it will be illegal to sell milk unless it is either -
(a) Tuberculin tested milk.
(b) Accredited milk.
(c) Processed milk (heat-treated,
pasteurised, or sterilised.)
When an area has been specified all processed milk sold
in that area must conform to the methylene blue and phosphatase
tests as prescribed in the Heat Treated Milk (Prescribed Tests)
Order, 1944, made by the Minister of Health.
No area in London has yet been specified, but the
Minister of Pood has, however, requested the Council to apply
the two tests to all processed milks, and to report the results
to him monthly.
The following ,table chows the number of samples of
processed milk taken during the year, together with the results
of the examinations.