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SECTION 27 (Inspection and control of infected food). If the Medical Officer
of Health of a district has reasonable ground for suspecting that any food of
which he, or any other officer of the local authority of the district, has
procured a sample under the provisions of this Act is likely to cause food
poisoning, he may give notice to the person in charge of the food that, until
his investigations are completed, the food, or any specified portion thereof,
is not to be used for human consumption, and either is not to be removed, or is
not to be removed except to some place specified in the notice. No action was
necessary under this section.
SECTION 29 (Milk and Dairies Regulations)
(a) MILK AND DAIRIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1959. The Department's register
of distributors of milk and dairy premises, shows the following entries:-
Di stributors of Milk
(i) Prom dairy premises in the borough 25
(ii) Prom premises in the borough, other than dairies 184
209
Dairy premises registered 25
(b) MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS, 1960. The following Dealer's
(pre-packed) licences were issued by the Borough Council:-
(i) Tuberculin Tested Milk 80
(ii) Pasteurised Milk 179
(iii) Sterilised Milk 203
Pour samples of raw milk were submitted to biological examination for
tubercle bacilli with negative results.
"Pasteurised" milk is required to comply with the Phosphatase Test for
adequate heat treatment, and with the Methylene Blue Test for bacterial
cleanliness. "Sterilised" milk is required to comply with the prescribed
turbidity test

Subsequent samples satisfied the Methylene Blue Test.
THE SALE OP 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 40
formal and 110 informal samples were submitted to the Council's Public Analyst
and all complied with the Regulations the average content of these samples
was 3 6 per cent. milk fat and 8 71 per cent. milk solids other than milk fat.