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cleanse themselves, including an adequate supply of soap,
clean towels and clean water, both hot and cold. This paragraph
is disappointing; it does not even go as far as the much
criticised washing provision of Section 13, Food and Drugs
Act, 1938.
The Milk (Special Designations) Act, 1949, revokes
Regulation 55G of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939,
and in place of the Milk (Special Designations) Regulations,
1936/1948, we now have two sets of legislation dealing with
designated milk, one for designated raw milk, and the other
for designated heat treated milk.
The Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk) Regulations,
1949, relate only to cows' milk which has not been treated by
heat, and authorises the use of the designations "Accredited"
and "Tuberculin Tested". Producers' licences are issued by
the Ministry of Agriculture, and Dealers' licences by the
Local Authorities.
The Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised and Sterilised
Milk) Regulations, 1949, provides for two designations,
"Pasteurised" and "Sterilised". The Food and Drugs
Authority is responsible for the licencing in relation to milk
pasteurised or sterilised on the premises of the applicant, and
the Local Authority for the licencing of other dealers. Under
both Regulations, the charging of fees is abolished.
It should be borne in mind that the granting of dealers'
licences is subject to the applicant satisfying the licencing
authority that his arrangements for the handling, storage,
treatment and distribution of milk, as the case may be, are
such as to comply with all the relevant provisions of the
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949, and the Milk (Special
Designations) Regulations under which the application is made.
The Regulations provide that licences shall authorise the
sale of milk only at or from the premises mentioned on the
licence, so removing the provision contained in Article 4 (2) of
the 1936/1948 Regulations by which a licence for a pasteurising
establishment applied also to milk pasteurised there and sold
by the licencee from any other place in the same area.
A person holding a dealer's licence for the sale of a designated
milk by wholesale, may sell such milk, by wholesale, outside
the licencing area without holding a supplementary licence.
Also, a person holding a Pasteuriser's or Steriliser's licence need
not hold a dealer's licence for such milk he sells wholesale.
From 1st October, 1949, Sterilised milk became a special
designation, and may only be sold by the holder of a licence.
The prescribed test (the methylene blue reduction test of
4½ hours between May and October, and 5½ hours between
November and April) for "Accredited" and "Tuberculin