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Certain specified beverages and foods will be allowed different
limits for a limited period.
The Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) Regulations, 1961.
—Operative from 10th March of the current year, these Regulations
re-enact with amendments those made in 1960 and prescribe further
qualifications with regard to meat inspectors.
During the year other Regulations were introduced concerning
approved chemical agents for the cleansing of milk containers and,
for the purposes of the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations,
1937/48, a certificate in respect of Bulgaria was officially recognised.
Milk
Milk consists of approximately 87% of water holding proteins,
sugar and certain salts in solution, has an average specific gravity
of 1.032 and has suspended in it finely divided globules of fat to
which it owes its whiteness. Its chemical composition is subject to
variation on a number of counts such as the season and time of
milking, the breed of cow, type of feeding, etc. Milk, as drawn
aseptically from a healthy cow, contains few bacteria but as it
forms an excellent medium for the growth of organisms every precaution
should be taken to prevent its contamination. It is,
therefore, to be expected that this commodity is one which is
sampled extensively during the year.
Milk Supply.—The supply of milk continues to be under the
direction of the Milk Marketing Board, who, in this connection, act
as agents to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The
greater proportion of the milk which enters the Borough originates
from the Home Counties and the remainder which is of a higher fat
content, arrives from Devon and the Channel Islands.
Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959.—Under the
provisions of these Regulations each person retailing milk in the
Borough must be registered as a Distributor. The number of
Distributors registered at the end of the year was 109, an increase
of 12 over 1960.
On 79 occasions the premises of distributors and dairies were
visited other than for sampling purposes, and defects, when detected
were remedied as and when necessary.
The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, I960.-— These
regulations, operative from the 1st October, 1960, replaced and
consolidated, with amendments, The Milk (Special Designation)
(Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-1954 and the Milk (Special Designation)
(Pateurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949-1953.
All milk now sold in the Borough has been Sterilised, Pasteurised
or Tuberculin Tested and the use of these Special Designations in