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and record the temperatures to which ice cream mixtures
are subjected in manufacture???. This requirement of
thermometers was contained in the original Regulations of
1947 hut the enforcement of this was held in abeyance by
the Minister until the 1st March, 1951.
All ice-cream manufacturers in the borough have
installed thermometers to their plants as required by
these Regulations.
Milk (Special Designations) (Specified Areas) Order, 1951
The Pood and Drugs (Milk, Dairies & Artificial Cream)
Act, 1950, which came into operation on the 1st January, 1951,
consolidated certain enactments relating to milk, dairies
and artificial cream. It provides, under Section 19 (1),
that the use of special designations is compulsory in
respect of all retail sales of milk for human consumption
(except catering sales) where the place of sale is in an
area, declared a specified area by order of the Minister of
Food under the provisions of Section 23 of the Act.
Greater London was declared a specified area on the
1st October, 1951. The effect of this Order makes it
illegal for any person to sell, by retail, milk for human
consumption other than milk sold as specially designated
milk, in accordance with the provisions of the Milk (Special
Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949, or the Milk
(Special Designations) (Pasteurized and Sterilized)
Regulations, 1949.
Prom the 1st October, 1951, all milk sold by retail
in Kensington must be either (a) Tuberculin Tested, (b)
Accredited milk from a single herd, (c) Pasteurized milk,
or (d) Sterilized milk.
For many years past Kensington retail dairymen have
obtained their supplies from the large wholesale milk
firms who have, as a routine practice, subjected the milk
to the Pasteurization process. In addition, the majority
of the local dairymen have adopted the practice whereby
the wholesaler supplies milk in sealed bottles, ready for
retail sale, and bearing the appropriate designations.
The operation of the Order did not materially affect
the supply position in the borough and merely resulted in
placing the sale of designated milks on a compulsory basis
instead of a voluntary one.
The Order amended the statutory procedure relating
to the refusal, suspension and revocation of licences
regarding the sale of designated milk. Briefly, this means
that the licences held by retailers authorising the use
of a special designation in relation to milk sold in the
area, may not be revoked or its renewal refused unless
(a) a breach of one of the specified conditions
has been committed, and only then if such
breach is the second of two breaches
occurring within twelve months, or
(b) if the retailer has been convicted for an
offence under the Milk and Dairies
Regulations, 1949.
Any suspension of the licence on such grounds by
the licensing authority can only be for a period not
exceeding three months at any one time.