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4t Milk (Special Deaignohion) (Raw Milk) Regulations,1949.
5. Milk (Special Designs ..on) (Pasteurised & Sterilised Milk)
Regulations, 1949#
One of the major changes brought about is that registration
of dairy farms and farmers and supervision of milk production
at farms in now the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture
and Fisheries instead of the local Council, except insofar as the
new Regulations relate to diseases communicable to man.
(i) At the end of the year there were twenty-seven entries
on the register as followss-
Distributors of milk
residing in the Borough If;
Distributors of milk
residing outside the
Borough but retailing in
the Borough 6
Premises registered (used
as Dairies) 9
Five traders who had ceased to carry on the business of
distributors of milk were removed from the register during the
year, in accordance with the regulations.
(ii) Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Rerelations,1949.
Milk (Special Designation) (PaTiTeurised and Steriliseif"
Milk) Regulations, 1949„
Dealers' licences to sell designated milk were granted
as follows
Pasteurised Milk 8
Pasteurised Milk (supplementary) 2
Tuberculin Tested Milk 7
Tuberculin Tested Milk (supplementsry) 2
(iii) 121 samples of milk were taken during the year and suonitted
to the undermentioned tests
Turbidity
Te st
j ho ■: rhatase
Test
C o.Li form
Teat
Methylene
Blue Test
Raw Milk (at cowsheds)
18
18
Pasteurised
«•
86
2
65
Heat Treated
—
4
aa
2
T .T . (Pasteurised Milk)
8
5
Sterilised
4
4
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All samples passed the prescribed test3 except two samples
of pasteurised milk. In one case the sample failed the Methylene
Blue Test, which was probably due to the very hot weather, and in
other case, the test was invalidated because the air temperature
rose above 65°F,
The Phosphatase Test indicates that pasteurisation has been
properly carried; the Methylene Blue Test is used to determine
cleanliness and keeping quality, and the Turbidity Test is a new
test to check on sterilisation.
There is now no raw milk sold in the Borough other than
unpasteurised Tuberculin Tested,,
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