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Early in the year a new Defence Regulation was made
restricting the supply of milk by retail to certain permitted
classes of milk in areas to be specified by the Ministry of
Food. The permitted classes are given as follows
(1) Tuberculin tested milk lawfully sold as such.
(2) Accredited milk lawfully sold as such and provided
that all such milk sold by the dairyman is
derived from one herd, and
(3) Heat treated, pasteurised or sterilised milk.
The object of the Regulation is to improve the quality
of milk supplied to consumers and is, I feel, of some
importance. At the present time there is no restriction
on the sale of raw milk provided it is not labelled as
tuberculin tested, pasteurised, or accredited. As will be
seen the effect of the Regulation will be to ensure that any
milk sold by retail other than tuberculin tested or accredited
will have to be heat treated, pasteurised or sterilised and
will have to be labelled as such. Milk sold as pasteurised
is already governed by the Milk (Special Designations)
Orders, but milk sold as heat treated or sterilised will have
to comply with the requirements of the new Regulation.
At the close of the year this area had not been specified
and the Order, consequently, had not been put into
operation. I can only express the personal hope that it
will be in the near future.
FOOD SUPPLY.
As far as possible, watch is kept on premises where
foodstuffs are prepared or sold, which includes slaughterhouses,
butchers' and fishmongers' shops, bakehouses,
dairies, etc.