CLEAN MILK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 8

CLEAN MILK.

NEW REGULATIONS GAZETTED. All is not always milk that glistens in the milk jug. The Chief Health Officer (Dr. Mason) has expatiated often on the Impurities that lurk in a great portion .of the city's milk supply, as it is at present delivered. . Tlie following regulations, which "-have just, been gazetted, are designed, to. make milk less of a' "mixed drink" than it is commonly. The regulations will apply to the carriage, delivery, and exposure, for .sale of milk sold or offered, or exposed for sale for human consumption or use, but will not apply to milk supplied to a creamery or dairy factory for manufacturing purposes. They read" as follow 1. No person shall-stand, or allow to standi upon any public footpath or pavement any milk, or any milk-cans or other vessels or utensils used for the carriage of milk. 2. No washing or rinsing of ;milk-cans or utensils must take, place unless in a properly constructed building. : 3. No manipulation of milk- such as mixing must . take place . unless in a properly ' constructed building. : ■ " ' ' . 4. No preservative of any kind may be added in milk sold as fresh.milk. ; ' 5. No person shall use for the carriage of milk any cart used for the carting of or any "substance likely to cause injury to milk. . 6. No vessel, the substance, construction, or condition of which is likely to contaminate milk or depreciate its nutritive valuo may be used for the holding of milk. _ 7. All carts used for the conveyance of iuila must be washed clean every day. ■ • 8. All milk, unless in the actual process of conveyance, must be stored out of the direct rays of the sun.- ■ , 9. No milk must.be exposed for sale, unless in vessels so covered as to preclude ■ any contamination of the milk. - ' 10. All measures, dippers, and other utensils used in the sale ot milk must bo-of such construction, substance, and in such condition as will preclude any contamination of the milk. • . 11. No room which is used as a kitclion., or living-room, or wherein any one sleeps, or which opens directly off any room in which any one sleeps, may be.'used as a milk-suop or milk-store. '> , 12. There must bo attached to every shop where milk is sold- an efficient supply of- hot and cold water, and apparatus suitablo for the cleansing and sterilising of the-vessels used. . 13. No water-closet, pan closet, or pit privy, cesspool, or urinal must, be within, .communicate directly with, or ventilate into any dairy or any room used as a milk-store or a milkshop. . , 14. ■ No. person suffering from any infectious disease, wkother notifiable under law- or not, may tako part in the . conveyance, treatment, or sale of milk. r 15. No pail closet, pit'privy, cesspool, or urinal must be within 10ft. ot any milk-shop or milk-store. ' 16. All milk-shops: and milk-stores must bo kept in such, a state, of'cleanliness as will prevent, the contamination of Uio milk. . 17. No shop .where milk is sold may be used, for tho sale of any article likely to affect.or cause contamination of tlie milk. ' . 18. All milk for transit must be consigned in vessels of approved' pattorn; and such vessels must, during transit by rail or boat, be sealed or locked. ' ..' ' . , 19. If any person fails to observo or commits a breach of any of tho foregoing regulations, lie shall; '••?on conviolion, bo liable to a penalty not exceeding .£2O. . . ' By a new regulation made under tho Sale of Food and Drugs Act, "1907, it is provided that milk shall not contain less 12 per cent, of total solids, not less than Bi. per cent', of -solids not fat, not less than 3j 'per cent, fatty solids (milk-fats), and not more, than 1 per cent, of ash. The addition of water to milk -is prohibited. .