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Milk Supplies
There are two milk processing depots in the Borough (each with its
own private railway sidings) enabling them to receive milk daily from the
country by rail, as well as by road, in 3,000 gallon capacity tankers.
Milk is collected from the farms and bulked at creamery centres in
the dairying areas and, after preliminary tests, it is dispatched to the
processing depots. Since the introduction of bulk collecting systems at
the farms, a quantity of milk collected in this way is now received at
the depots, as well as some dispatched direct from farms in churns.
One of these depots has now ceased bottling milk and has developed
the manufacture of milk products, notably yoghurt. The other depot is in
the process of modernisation and an automatic plant for mechanical handling
of bottles has been installed.
There are four "High temperature - short time" pasteurising plants in
which the milk is heated to, and retained at, a temperature of 161°F for
15 seconds, and then cooled to below 50°F in accordance with the requirement!
of the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1963/65. Some of the milk
is distributed in churns after pasteurising - the remainder is bottled or
filled into cartons.
At regular intervals the Senior Food Inspector checks the efficiency
and temperature of the working plants and takes samples to ensure that
they comply with the requirements of the Milk (Special Designation)
Regulations, 1963/65.
All samples taken from these milk plants were reported to be satisfactory.
86 inspections were made in connection with the processing of milk.
Generally, the premises were found to be satisfactory.
270 persons were on the register of milk distributors at the end of
the year.
The following number of licences under the Milk (Special Designation)
Regulations, 1960/65, were in force at the end of the year:
Pasteurised 291
Sterilised 257
Untreated 67
Ultra heat treated 48
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