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The Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised
Milk) Regulations, 1949.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.
These Regulations came into force on the 1st October, 1949, and
re-enact with amendments the Milk (Special Designations) Orders,
1936/1946.
Annual licences for the sale of special designated milk were granted
as follows :
Dealers' Licences— Supplementary Licences—
Pasteurised 45 Pasteurised 9
Tuberculin Tested 29 Tuberculin Tested 9
Accredited 1 Sterilised 8
Sterilised 39
34 samples of milk were taken for examination in course of delivery
or from shops. These were Pasteurised 19, Heat treated 2, Tuberculin
Tested 7, Sterilised 6. All the samples satisfied the Methylene Blue,
Phosphatase and Turbidity tests.
ICE CREAM
There are 120 premises registered for the sale, manufacture or
storage of ice cream.
Section 14 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, requires that premises
used for the sale, manufacture or storage of ice cream shall be registered.
This does not apply to premises used primarily as a theatre, cinema,
music hall, concert hall, hotel, inn, club, or restaurant but if ice cream
is manufactured at a theatre, cinema, music hall, concert hall, then these
premises must be registered.
The enforcement of the provisions of the Act as to registration and
the general hygienic requirements of both the Food and Drugs Act, 1938,
and the Ice Cream (Heat Treatment) Regulations, 1947, have called for
regular and frequent supervision of plant and premises by the Sanitary
Inspectors. During the year 154 inspections of registered premises were
carried out.
Thirty-two samples of ice cream were taken during the year and
submitted for bacteriological examination. The results were as follows:—
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
14 9 3 6
These grades are provisional and cannot be said to give conclusive
results but they do give an indication of bacterial cleanliness. All unsatisfactory
samples are followed up and observations kept on methods
of manufacturing and handling in order to obtain improvement.