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Food and Food Premises 31
Applications have been received from 155 persons to be
registered as distributors of milk, including 14 applications from
persons with premises outside this Borough, and 30 applications
for the registration of premises as dairies. In each case the
certificate of registration was granted.
The bulk of the milk sold by retail within the Borough is
sent out in bottles filled in properly constructed dairies and its
quality is good
Food and Diugs Act, 1938.
882 samples of milk were submitted for analysis. 876 of these
were reported as genuine, with an average fat content of 3.59 per
cent.
The Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949,
and The Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised
Milk) Regulations, 1949.
The regulations came into force on 1st October, 1949, and
replace The Milk (Special Designations) Regulations, 1936 to
1948.

Licences were not required for the sale of sterilised milk
before 1st October.
301 samples of milk were procured from distributors, schools,
hospitals and institutions and submitted to the phosphatase test,
the methylene blue test, the turbidity test and for bacteriological
examination. Twelve of these failed to comply with the prescribed
tests.