MILK GRADING

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 14 March 1932, Page 4

MILK GRADING

NEW REGULATIONS. DUTY OF FACTOIDES. Regulations to enforce the grading of milk at creameries, skimming stations, and full-cream cheese factories, were gazetted at the end of last week. It is required that the factory shall grade milk as soon as possible after its receipt. Milk supplied to full-cream cheese factories shall be graded into two classes, and the first grade shall be such as would by approved methods, without pasteurisation, make cheese of first grade. ■Three grades arc required in creameries and skimming stations. The first, for butter, is to grade as finest quality; the second, for first-grade butter, and the third class for milk which would in the opinion of the milk grader make butter below first grade. Proprietors of factories and creameries arc required by the regulations to send returns to the Department of Agriculture showing the quantity cf milk graded, and the number of pounds of milk or butter-fat contained iu each grade.