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SECTION E — INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
The Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations, 1959
These Regulations re-enact with amendments the Milk and Dairies
Regulations, 1949 to 1954. The principal changes are:—
(a) the registration of distributors is now required to be effected
only with the local authority in whose area the premises from
which the milk is distributed are situated;
(b) suitable and properly trapped internal drains are permitted in a
milking house which is not used for the housing of cattle where
no other means of drainage is reasonably practicable;
(c) provision is made for the local authority to pay compensation to a
person who sustains damage or loss through being debarred from
certain employment connected with cows or with milk because
he is suffering, or has been in contact with a person suffering,
from a disease liable to cause infection of milk;
(d) where milk is infected, or suspected of being infected, with
disease:—
(i) the appropriate notice may be served by a medical officer of
health on the occupier of registered premises outside (as well
as inside) his district and, in the case of tuberculosis, it shall
operate until it is withdrawn;
(ii) the conditions as to compensation have been considerably
modified;
(e) an electric or gas boiler may be used in a milking house or milk
room and bottles which have contained certain foods other than
milk may by cleansed in a milk room;
(/) there are new provisions as to personal cleanliness, precautions
against contamination or infection of milk and the provision of
first aid equipment;
(g) the Minister may permit milk to be cooled in a closed container
in a milking house not used for the housing of cattle where the
cows are milked by mechanical means direct to such container;
(h) there are new provisions relating to the misuse of milk churns,
the cleansing of vessels and appliances, the storage of cartons
and non-returnable containers and the use of bottle-washing
machines for cleansing glass bottles;
(i) the collection of milk by milk tanker from a tank on a farm is
permitted;
(j) a person selling milk as, or as part of, a meal or refreshments is
exempted from the prohibition against opening any receptacle
containing milk or transferring milk from one receptacle to another
elsewhere than on registered premises.