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Milk (Special Designations) Orders.
The following licences were issued
Dealers' Licences:
Tuberculin tested milk 5
Pasteurised milk 7
Sterilised milk . 9
Supplementary Licences :
Tuberculin tested milk 4
Pasteurised milk 5
Sterilised milk 4
Milk Sampling.
informal samples of milk submitted to chemical analysis totalled 42, and
all were found to be genuine.
The analyses of the 42 samples show the following averages:—
Fat—3.64% (standard 3.0%).
Solids not fat—8.85% (standard 8.5%).
Twenty-nine samples of pasteurised milk and six samples of tuberculin
tested (pasteurised) milk were submitted to the Methylene Blue and Phosphatase
Tests and they all satisfied the tests.
Seven samples of sterilised milk satisfied the turbidity test.
Ice Cream.
There are no manufacturers in the district, but a number of premises arc
registered for the sale of ice-cream, the shopkeepers obtaining their supplies from
well-known manufacturers.
Thirty-one samples of ice-cream were taken and submitted to the Methylene
Blue Test with the following results :—
Grade 1-—19 ; Grade 2—7 ; Grade 3—4 ; Grade 4—1.
The dealer whose sample was in Grade 4 was given advice regarding
precautions to be observed in the cleansing of equipment and subsequent samples
were of Grade 1.
In no case were samples found to be consistently below Grade 2 and in all
cases temperatures did not exceed 28° F.
Twenty-nine samples were submitted to analysis for fat content and all were
found to contain more than 2½% fat, the results ranging from 4.0% to 12.0%.
Slaughterhouses.
No animals were slaughtered in the district.
Bakehouses.
The occupiers' appeal to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction against the
Council's decision to withdraw the Certificate of Suitability of the last underground
bakehouse in the district was withdrawn, the bakehouse having been removed to
another part of the premises.
Defects found in two bakehouses were remedied after informal action.