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The supervision of milk production on the farm now becomes the
responsibility of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and local
authorities retain the duties of controlling the distribution and sale of
milk. The licensing of pasteurising and sterilising establishments is
transferred to the County Council, the Food and Drugs Authority, but
the Borough Council are still responsible for enforcing the provisions of
the Milk and Dairies Regulations (which apply to all dairy premises).
Unnecessary overlapping results from both authorities having duties on
the same premises.
The Borough Council is still responsible for the granting of dealers
and supplementary licences for the sale of special designated milk.
Licences were granted during the year as follows:—
Dealers Supplementary
Licences Licences
pasteurised 27 9
tuberculin tested 25 10
accredited 1 —
sterilised 40 9
The Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949, require the local authority to
register all dairy premises (other than dairy farms) and all persons carrying
on the trade of milk distributor.
Applications for registration during the year were as follows:—
distributors ... 52 Dairies 2
Thirty-six samples of milk sold under special designations were taken
in course of delivery or from shops and submitted for bacteriological
examination. All were found to be satisfactory.
ICE CREAM
There are 142 premises registered for the sale, manufacture or storage
of ice cream. Frequent inspections of these premises are carried out to
ensure that the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act 1938 are being
maintained, and in cases where ice cream is manufactured that the
requirements of the Ice Cream (Heat Treatment) Regulations 1947 are
being complied with.
Forty-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
21 13 5 3
Where ice cream is sold from vehicles these are inspected as often as
possible but as most of them come into the Borough from other districts
and usually stay in one position for only a short time it is difficult to locate
them. The vehicles of vendors operating from within the Borough are
inspected frequently and, on the whole, a satisfactory standard is obtained.
Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act 1938 which has been adopted by
the Council requires that all vehicles from which ice cream is sold shall
have the name and address of the dealer legibly displayed.
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