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(d) THE MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS, 1960 These regulations
operative from 1st October, 1960, insofar as they relate to producers' licences
and on 1st January, 1961, insofar as they relate to dealer's licences, consoli
date and re-enact with amendments the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk)
Regulations. 1949 to 1954, and the Milk (Special Designation) Pasteurised and
Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949 to 1953. The principal changes are:-
(i) dealers' licences, except for a few kinds which will be granted by
the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will be granted by
the food and drugs authority for the area within which are situated
the premises at or from which the milk is to be pasteurised,
sterilised or sold, as the case may be: dealers' licences will
permit sales outside as well as inside the area of the licensing
authority and supplementary licences are to be discontinued
(regulation 12(1) (a);
(ii) a dealer's (pre-packed milk) licence is introduced to permit the sale
of all three kinds of specially designated milk where the milk is
obtained by the dealer in the container in which it is to be supplied
to the consumer, or is pasteurised or sterilised by the dealer
(regulation 12(1)(c)
(iii) the period for which a dealer s licence will be granted is extended
from one year to five years (regulation 13);
(iv) a licence holder is no longer required to allow samples of milk to be
taken free of charge (First Schedule, paragraph 4):
(v) a herd in respect of which a producer's licence is held is allowed to
run with other attested cattle or cattle from a controlled herd
(Second Schedule, Part I, paragraph A. 5);
(vi) The storage of tuberculin tested milk in a fixed tank at the farm and
subsequent collection in a milk tanker is permitted but such milk is
required to be pasteurised or sterilised before sale (Second Schedule,
Part I, paragraphs A. 6. and B. 2);
(vii) the sealing of containers (other than retail containers) of tuberculin
tested milk is no longer obligatory (Second Schedule, Parti, paragraphs
C. 1. and C. 2.);
(viii) The Clot-on-Boiling test has been introduced for tuberculin tested
milk to which a producer's licence relates (Second Schedule,
Part I, paragraph C.4);
(ix) When, for the purpose of taking a sample of milk, a person breaks the
seal on a container, he must re-seal the container and attach to it a
label certifying that it has been opened and re-sealed (Third Schedule,
Part I, paragraph 3):
(x) the conditions of the Methylene Blue Test for tuberculin tested milk
and pasteurised milk are modified (Third Schedule, Part III) and a
different Phosphatase test for pasteurised milk has been prescribed
(Third Schedule, Part IV).
THE SALE OF MILK REGULATIONS. 1939. These Regulations require milk to contain
not less than 3% milk fat, and 8.5% milk solids other than milk fat. Some 160
samples, 53 formal and 107 informal, were submitted to the Council's Public
Analyst; the average content of these samples was 3.8 per cent milk fat and 8 81
Per cent milk solids other than milk fat. There was only one adverse report
and that related to a sample of pasteurised milk which was reported to be
deficient in milk fat to the extent of 6.7 per cent' the third portion was
examined and found to be satisfactory.