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outside the Borough. Under the provisions of the Milk (Special Designations)
Regulations, 73 dealers' licences and 27 supplementary licences authorising the use
of special designations have been issued.
The standard of the milk supply was found to be satisfactory ; practically all
the milk distributed in the Borough is heat-treated.
All the 423 samples submitted for chemical analysis contained 3 per cent, or
more of fat.
During the year 259 samples of milk (all pasteurised) were submitted to the
Methylene Blue test for the keeping quality of milk and satisfactory reports were
received in all cases.
Of the 100 samples of pasteurised milk submitted to the Phosphatase test for
adequate heat treatment, the test was satisfied in respect of 94 samples. In the
six cases where an unsatisfactory report was received, further samples were
immediately obtained and were reported as satisfactory.
Nine samples of sterilised milk were submitted for turbidity test in accordance
with the Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations,
1949, and satisfactory reports were received in each case.
Milk (Special Designations) Act, 1949. This Act came into force on the
1st October, 1949, and makes the use of a special designation obligatory for all
milk sold by retail for human consumption within certain areas, to be specified from
time to time by the Minister of Food. Food and Drugs Authorities are responsible
for the execution and enforcement of many of the allied provisions and will have
added responsibilities in the specified areas. Until these areas are specified the use
of a special designation will remain a voluntary act. Licences are granted on
prescribed tests.
In addition to the special designations laid down in existing regulations under
the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, provision is made for a new special designation,
"Sterilised" milk. Accredited milk is to be excluded from special designations
after October, 1954, and after October, 1957 the special designation "Tuberculin
Tested" may only be used in respect of milk from a herd which is on the register
of Attested Herds kept by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Regulations made under the Act provide that licences to producers of raw milk
to use a special designation are now granted by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries, whilst local authorities continue to grant licences to dealers to use a special
designation and also issue supplementary licences.
Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944. With the coming into
force during 1949 of this Act and the Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949, the
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries became responsible for executing and enforcing
the Regulations with regard to dairy farms and* for the registration of dairy farms
and dairy farmers.
Local authorities retain responsibilities for those provisions relating to diseases
communicable to man and for the registration of milk distributors, i.e., persons
trading from premises other than a dairy farm and for the registration of other
dairy premises which are not dairy farms and of dairymen who are not dairy farmers.
Local authorities are required to keep a register of all persons carrying on the
trade of milk distributor and of all dairy premises (other than dairy farms) in their
district.
With the coming into force of the Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act,
1944, Section 22 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, is amended, so that the power
of the authority to refuse or cancel registration is extended to all persons who apply
to be registered by the authority under the Milk and Dairies Regulations, whether
as retail purveyors or not.
There are a number of changes in the Regulations relating to buildings, cleansing
of vessels and utensils and the distribution of milk and its protection against contamination
and infection with disease.
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