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Designated Milk.
Under the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and
Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949, and the Milk (Special
Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949, the following
licences were issued during the year:—
Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) Licence 3
Dealer's (Steriliser's) Licence 1
Dealer's (Bottling) Licence 1
Dealer's Licences
Tuberculin Tested 59
Pasteurised 63
Sterilised 79
Dealer's Supplementary Licences
Tuberculin Tested 13
Pasteurised 15
Sterilised17
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923/1948.
These Regulations provide standards for milk fat and milk
solids of condensed milk and control the labelling of tins or other
receptacles. During the year 22 samples were submitted for
examination to the Public Analyst and were reported genuine.
Sale of Horseflesh for Human Consumption.
During recent years the sale of horseflesh for human
consumption in this country has considerably increased for very
obvious reasons. In pre-war days there were a number of
establishments generally in the large cities where horses were
slaughtered for the continental trade, and while this trade still
carries on, the present traffic in horseflesh has increased the
number of animals passing through these slaughterhouses.
During the war years rigid control was exercised over the movement
and sale of horseflesh, but as this control was gradually
removed, Parliament became perturbed by some reports
particularly over the conditions in which horses are transported
to the various slaughterhouses and the treatment of the
animals prior to slaughter and even with regard to their humane
slaughter. A committee of enquiry has been appointed to
enquire into the slaughter of horses in England, Wales and
Scotland and in the meantime the Public Health Meat Regulations,
1924/35, have been amended so as to make the notification