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(SPECIAL DESIGNATION) (PASTEURISED AND STERILISED
MILK) REGULATIONS, 1949 and 1950; THE MILK (SPECIAL
DESIGNATION) (SPECIFIED AREAS) ORDER, 1951.
The last mentioned Order made by the Minister of Food
which affects, amongst other areas, the whole of the. County of
Middlesex, came into operation on the 1st October, 1951. The
effect of the Order is that all milk sold in the area must be
specially designated milk, i.e., Tuberculin Tested, Accredited,
Pasteurised or Sterilised Milk. Enforcement of the Order is the
duty of the Food and Drugs Authority. For some time prior to
the passing of the Order it has been the practice of the local
dairymen to supply only milk of the above-mentioned standards,
but the Order now makes it obligatory to do so.
No action was found to be necessary under Regulation 20 of
the Milk and Dairies Regulations (relating to disease communicable
to man by consumption of milk).
During 1951/141 dealers' licences to sell designated milk were
issued by the Council.
4. REGISTRATION OF HAWKERS OF FOOD AND
THEIR PREMISES. Section 11 of the Middlesex County Council
Act, 1950, which is an adoptive section, came into operation in
the Borough on 1st September, 1951, and supersedes Section 279
of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944, which had reference
only to meat, fish, fruit and vegetables.
The new section is wider in application and refers to all food
except any substance contained in a container of such material
and so closed as to exclude all risk of contamination. There are
certain other exemptions such as premises used for the manufacture
or sale of ice cream, or preserved food, dairies and dairymen,
all of which already have to be registered under another
enactment, premises licensed for the sale of excisable liquor for '
consumption on the premises, etc. All persons, other than a person
keeping open shop for the sale of food, selling or offering or
exposing for sale any food from or upon any cart, barrow, or
other vehicle or any basket, pail, tray or other receptacle, must
be registered with the local authority and the premises used for
the storage of food intended for sale in the circumstances mentioned
above must also be registered. The local autliority may
refuse or revoke registration if they are satisfied
(i) as regards a person that the public health is or is likely
to be endangered by any act or default of his in relation
to the quality, storage or distribution of food; or
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