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Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.
Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised & Sterilised Milk)
Regulations, 1949.
Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulatons, 1949.
During 1949 new regulations were issued by the Ministry of
Food with regard to the designations of milk and its supervision.
The control of premises for pasteurisation of milk was transferred
from the Local Authority to the Food & Drugs Authority (in this
area the County Council of Middlesex). A new special designation
"Sterilised Milk" was introduced and the special designations
to be used after 1st October, 1949, were ''Pasteurised",
"Sterilised", "Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised)", "Tuberculin
Tested (Sterilised)" and "Tuberculin Tested". All licences
authorising the use of a special designation were to be issued by
the Food & Drugs Authorities.
Other important points from the new regulations were: —
I. No fees to be payable in respect of Dealers' Licences.
II. A licence to be issued in respect of every premises used
for the sale of milk, i.e., an individual dealer not to
have one licence to cover any number of shops.
III. Provision now to be made for all designated milk to be
kept separate from non-designated milk or milk with
other designation.
IV. A Regulation to extend the powers of the Medical Officer
of Health to take action in case of suspected or
confirmed infectious disease associated with the sale
of milk.
The designations "Accredited" and "Standard", while
permitted for a time, are to be excluded from the list of designations
after five years from the passing of the Act.
Ice Cream—Sampling of Ice Cream.
One hundred and twenty-four samples of ice cream were
taken from thirty-four premises and examined bacteriologically.
a result of these tests the ice creams were graded as follows:—
Grade I 62
Grade II 51
Grade III 6
Grade IV 5
No cases occurred during the year of ice cream in such poor
bacteriological condition as to require the stoppage of sale.
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