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To comply with the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised
and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, Tuberculin Tested (Pasteurised)
and Pasteurised Milk must not give a reading of more than 2.3
Lovibond blue units in the phosphatase test and must not
decolourise methylene blue in 30 minutes. The 85 samples
examined under these Regulations were all found to be satisfactory.
ICE CREAM
Food and Drugs Act, 1955
Ice Cream (Heat Treatment etc.) Regulations, 1959
Food Standards (Ice Cream) Regulations, 1959
Reg i strat i ons
During the year two applications for the registration of
premises for the sale and storage of ice cream were received and
granted.
At the end of 1959 a total of one hundred and sixty-three
premises had been registered for the sale of ice cream in
accordance with Section 16 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, and
on three of these premises ice cream could be manufactured.
BACTERIOLOGICAL SAMPLING OF ICE CREAM
During the year seventy-six samples of ice cream were
obtained for bacteriological examination and provisional grading.

It is most gratifying to record that 98.68% of the samples
were placed in grades 1 and 2, 1.32% in grade 3, and none in
grade 4.
The following table shows the average percentage and other
details in connection with the samples obtained from individual
manufacturers.
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