View report page

70
Pasteurised Milk-
Establishment Licence 1
Dealers' Licences 19
Supplementary Licences 3
The Milk and Dairies Regulations and Milk (Special Designation)
Regulations became operative on the 1st October, 1949.
From this date until the end of the year the following applications
for licences to use special designations in accordance with these
regulations were received:—
Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk)
Regulations.
Pasteurised Milk—
Dealer's Licence 73
Supplementary Licence 10
Dealer's (Pasteuriser's) Licence 1
Sterilised Milk—
Dealer's Licence 81
Supplementary Licence 10
Dealer's (Steriliser's) Licence 1
Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations.
Tuberculin Tested Milk—
Dealer's Licence 18
Supplementary Licence 10
Milk samples submitted for bacteriological examination are
siimma.riseH as follows:—
Unsatisfactory
Pasteurised
47
6
Tuberculin Tested
7
–
Sterilised
4
–
Heat Treated
36
5
Ungraded
2
–
96
11
All the unsatisfactory samples failed to satisfy the methylene
blue test. Investigations were made in respect of each of these
unsatisfactory samples but as far as could be ascertained this failure
to satisfy the test for keeping quality could only be attributed to
some of the high atmospheric temperatures encountered during
last summer.