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49
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
(A) MILK
Legislation
The 1949 Milk and Dairies Regulations required every local authority
to keep a register of persons carrying on the trade of distributor in their
district. A distributor is defined as a person trading as a dairyman
elsewhere than at or from premises in relation to which he is registered
as a dairy farmer. The 1953 Amendment Regulations modify this
definition and a distributor now means a person trading as a dairyman
elsewhere than at or from premises in relation to which he is registered
as a dairy farmer under these regulations, but does not include the purveyor
of cream in hermetically sealed containers in which it is delivered
to his premises provided that such a purveyor is not otherwise a purveyor
of milk.
The Milk (Special Designations) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1953 :—
(a) allow milk to be sterilised in cans or other suitable containers
as well as in bottles ; and
(b) appoint October 1st, 1954, as the date from which it shall be
compulsory to use overlapping caps on containers of pasteurised
milk.
Production
There are seven farms in the district at which milk is produced. Of
these six are producing tuberculin tested milk and one raw milk. This
last is sold wholesale.
Production ceased at one farm where for a number of years accredited
milk had- been produced.

Inspection and Supervision
During the year 88 visits were made to cowsheds and dairies. It was
found a satisfactory standard was being maintained.
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