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Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply.—No registration of retailers or producers has
had to be refused under the provisions of the Milk and Dairies
(Amendment) Act. 1922 (Milk and Dairies Order, 1926).
Eleven additional retailers were registered during the year
under this Act.
Under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936, 21 Dealers'
Licences to sell Pasteurised Milk, 8 to sell Tuberculin Tested Milk
and 1 to sell Accredited Milk were granted during the year.
One Pasteuriser's licence in respect of a pasteurising and
bottling establishment was granted.
Ten supplementary licences for Pasteurised Milk. 7 for Tuberculin
Tested Milk, and 2 for Accredited Milk were granted during
the year.
No milk, other than that contained in sealed bottles, is retailed
from any general shop in the district.
Last year I deplored the fact that the Government had not
seen fit to introduce legislation rendering the pasteurisation of all
milk supplied within any district compulsory. Since then the
position has not altered, except in so far as certain statements
have appeared which tend to prejudice pasteurisation in the mind
of the public. It is most unfortunate indeed that such statements
find their way into the Press, more often than not as isolated
excerpts from an article or debate. Opponents will always be
found to any progressive step, especially when that step envisages
the positive application of scientific principles to those food products
which, in the opinion of such individuals, are natural products,
the possibility of disaster being apparently quite a secondary
concern. It is more unfortunate still that this type of protagonist
is usually vocal, and that the statements made are sometimes
based on half-truths and in certain instances on no truth at all.
In spite of all opposition, the fact is apparent that the pasteurisation
of the nation's milk supply remains the only answer
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