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Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended
to indicate their general purport).
The purpose of these by-laws is to consolidate and amend the Mik Shops and Pasteurization Plants By-laws and the Reconstituted Milk and Cream By-laws, Milk and reconstituted milk are very similar commodities and the public health requirements which apply to one apply, with few exceptions, to the other,
2. These by-laws are divided into four Parts, Part 1 deals with preliminary matters and includes the definitions. "Milk" has been defined to include recor stituted milk so that, except where it is expressly stated otherwise, the by-laws and this Note apply to both commodities. Part II specifies the conditions ander which milk may be sold. The provisions for the licensing of the sale of milt as such bave not been continued. Under the existing by-laws, a cestaura cuonot serve milk to customers, nor can a grocer's shop supply milk in sealed bottles, without a special licence. This unsatisfactory position has been over come by including milk in the Second Schedule to the Food Business By-laws, 1960, which specifies the restricted foods. The cffect of this is that any food business of a kind which must be licensed may sell milk subject to the endorse ment of the licence, free of charge, with permission to sell milk, in the same way as permission is granted to sell any other restricted food. Where the food business is of a kind which requires no licence and it is desired to sell mill. permission will be granted on payment of a fee of thirty dollars if the Coumel is satisfied that the premises from which the milk will be sold are provided with The necessary means of keeping the milk cool in compliance with "by-law 13 of these by-laws and free from risk of contamination. Particulars of the premis in other respects are largely immaterial since, except in restaurants, milk mu be sold in sealed bottles, Part III deals with the processing and reconstitutica of milk, or, in other words, the manufacturing aspect. The greatest risk of contamination lies in the handling of the milk during these processes and therefore, any food business which engages in them is subject ta licepsins. Thò involves strict control over the premises and plant used, together with a number of other provisions directed to the prevention of contamination of the milk. Part TV deals with miscellaneous matters, and, inter alia, re-enacts the existing provisions with respect to the storage of infected sources of milk supply.
3. A detailed Comparative Table is annexed to this Note,
By-law.
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COMPARATIVE TABLE.
Corresponding provision of the Milk Shops and Pasteurization Plants By-laws.
Corresponding provision of the Reconstituted Milk and Cream By-laws.
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12
By-lawr
Corresponding provision of the Milk Shops and Pasteurizatian Plants By-laws.
6
2(3)
7
201)
"
401)
10
=
4.4
17
26
13
Remarks,
14
12
Citation and commencemení.
Application.
Interpretation. “Milk" is de
fined to
Include frozen w
reconstituted milk.
The Schedule prescribes de methods of heat-treating milk.
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Corresponding provision of the Reconstituted Milk and Cream By-laws.
I
1
Remarks.
801)
8(3)
This by-law relates the sale of milk to the Food Business By-laws, 1960.
To prescribe the degree of purity required for the sale of milk
This by-law brings reconsti- tuted milk within the same requirements as to heat-treat- ment as milk.
Prohibition of thickening sub- stances in cream. This by-law is taken from regulation 3(3) of the existing Adulterated Food and Drugs Regulations.
Approval of containera in which milk is sold.
To provide for the proper description of reconstituted milk.
Beverages resembling milk. The provisions relating to the labelling of milk and recon- stituted milk will be found in the Food and Drugs (Composi- tion and Labelling) Regola- tions, 1960.
General provision to prevent risk of soutarnination during sale of milk.
New. Milk not to be kept pending sale at a temporature at over 50° F.
To provide for the licensing of persons processing or recon- stituting milk. Under the existing by-laws, it was the sale of the milk whicb was licensed, and only registration of the premises where it was processed, etc. was required. These by-laws, in effect, reverse the position since the risk of contamination lies not in the sale of the milk in sealed con- Lainers, but in the processing and bottling.