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SECTION E.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
(i) The following new legislation came into operation on the 1st October,
1949, viz.: —
1. The Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944.
2. Milk (Special Designations) Act, 1949.
3. Regulations made under the two foregoing Acts and the Food
and Drugs Act, 1938, as follows: —
(a) Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.
(b) Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.
(c) Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurized and Sterilized Milk)
Regulations, 1949.
The general effect of the two Acts was to transfer to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries the responsibility for the registration of dairy
farms and dairymen, and to empower the Minister of Food to prescribe
specified areas in which an obligation is imposed on the retailing of milk or
associated sales (e.g., catering sales), to use special designations.
(а) Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.—-The Ministry of Agriculture
and Fisheries is now responsible for the registration of dairy farms and of
persons carrying on or proposing to carry on the trade of dairy farmer. The
duties of executing and enforcing the Regulations are divided between the
Ministry and the Local Authorities, so that in the Borough the Ministry is
responsible for enforcing the Regulations so far as they relate to dairy farms
or to the registration of persons carrying on or proposing to carry on the
trade of dairy farmer, whilst the Council is responsible for executing and
enforcing (1) the Regulations so far as they apply outside dairy farms, (2) the
provisions relating to diseases communicable to man, and (3) the sanitary
provisions of the Regulations.
The Council is 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, and to remove from such register the name of any
person who ceases so to trade and the address of any premises which cease
to be so used.
Persons and premises registered as at 31st December, 1949: —
Persons registered as distributors of milk 68
Premises registered as dairy premises (other than dairy
farms) 15
215 inspections of dairy premises were carried out during the year.
(b) Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.—These
Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the Milk (Special Designations)
Regulations, 1936 to 1948, so far as they relate to raw milk. They provide
that licences to produce raw milk to use any special designation shall be
granted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, while in " specified
areas " the Local Authorities will continue to grant licences to dealers to use
special designations in respect of such milk. The conditions, subject to
which the designations may be used, are laid down in the Regulations. The
designations authorised by the Regulations are, as at present, " Accredited "
and "Tuberculin Tested." The use of the former designation will, however,
no longer be permitted after 1st October, 1954.