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16
Milk
Pour hundred and twenty-eight samples of milk were submitted
to the Public Analyst during the year and all were found to be of
genuine composition.

Legal Minimum Standards: - Milk fats - 3°00%.Non-fatty solids - 8.50%
Average standard for the year:-
Milk fats - 3.55%.Non-fatty solids - 8.76%
Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936/1946
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 licences granted were as
follows:-
Principal. Supplementary.
Dealers licensed to bottle and
sell tuberculin tested milk 1 -
Dealers licensed to sell
tuberculin tested milk 37 4
Dealers licensed to sell
pasteurised milk 74 4
Thirty-three samples of tuberculin tested milk were
submitted for examination, and of these 10 failed to pass the
prescribed tests.
Twenty-seven samples of tuberculin tested (pasteurised)
milk and 59 samples of pasteurised milk were submitted for
examination. Two of the tuberculin tested (pasteurised)
samples failed to pass the prescribed tests.
In March, 1946, the Milk (Special Designations)
Regulations, 1946, came 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 1946 Regulations these standards were
abolished, and the phosphatase and methylene blue tests were
substituted.