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FOOD & DRUGS (Cont.)
2496 (informal) (Cont.)
Milk & Vegetable Fat,
Evaporated and Separated
Total solids 29.8%
Fat, including oils 8.6%
Skimmed milk solids 21.1%
Protein derived from
milk 8.0%
After a thorough investigation the
manufacturers admitted that an
error had occurred and gave an
assurance that action had been
taken which would prevent a
recurrence.
The Council decided to issue a
warning to the manufacturers.
FOOD & DRUGS ACT,1955.
Foreign bodies in food.
Mouldy loaf. A resident complained that he had taken delivery
of a small wrapped cut brown loaf which was later found to
contain mould growth.
After considering the circumstances and correspondence
with the manufacturers the Council decided to send them a
letter expressing concern at the incident and the hope that
they would take all possible measures to prevent a recurrence.
MILK SUPPLY.
1. The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations,1960. These
regulations came into operation on 1st January, 1961, insofar
as they relate to dealers' licences, the effect being, inter alia,
that all dealers' licences (except a few kinds which will be
granted by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food) will
be issued by the food and drugs authority for the area in which
are situated the premises at or from which the milk is processed
or sold. A dealer's licence no longer restricts sales to the
area of the licensing authority and supplementary licences are
therefore discontinued.
A new form of licence, the dealer's (pre-packed milk)
licence, is introduced which may authorise, in a single form
of licence, the use of any or all of the appropriate special
designations where the milk is obtained by the licensed dealer
pre-packed i.e., in the container in which it is to be delivered
to the consumer, or is pasteurised or sterilised by the dealer
in accordance with a dealer's (pasteuriser's) licence, or a
dealer's (steriliser's) liecence. The dealer's (tuberculin
tested) licence is being retained for the purpose of re-selling
such milk by wholesale or by retail.
Dealers' licences issued on or after 1st January, 1961, will
be valid for five years from that date, and will be renewable for
subsequent quinquennial periods.
Applications for Dealers' (Pre-Packed Milk) licences to use
38.