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Desigo and construction

of vessels and

utensils used for

coolsining milk.

Provisions as

of infection

18. No receptacle or other utensil shall be used in any dairy for containing milk intended for sale unless the same is of such design and constructed of such material as the Director has, for the time being. approved.

19. (1) All reasonable and proper precautions shall be taken in) to prevention and in connexion with the milking of animals, and the cooling, proces ! or conuuming, sing, handling, storage and distribution of milk, to prevent milk tion of milk. becoming infected or contaminated.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of paragraph (1), the following provisions shall apply in connexion witĺ the milking of animals and the cooling, processing. handling, storage and distribution of milk-

(a) the milking of animals shall be carried out in a good and proper light whether in the day tire or during the hours of darkness;

(6) immediately before any animal is milked, all dirt on or around the flanks, tail, udder and teats of the animal shall be removed, and the udder and teats shall be kept thoroughly clean during milking:

(e) the hands of any person who milks any animal shall b thoroughly washed before he commences the milking and sball, at all times when he is engaged in the milking of any animal, be kept clean, free from contamination and, as far as practicable, dry:

(d) as soon as possible after any animal has been milked, the milk shall be removed to a milk room and, pending its removal, shall he kept in a covered receptacle;

(e) when any milk has been so removed to a milk room, it shall be placed in a receptacle approved by the Director under regulation 18 and shall thereafter be kept in such receptacle until it is inserted into a pasteurization plant or, where the milk is conveyed from the dairy to a pasteurization plant in a milk tanker, until it is inserted into the milk tanker,

( no room shall be used as a milk room unless its use for that

purpose has been approved by the Director;

(g) a milk room shall not be used for any purpose other than the cooling, processing, handling and storage of milk and the cleansing and storing of any appliances, receptacles and other utensils used in the milking of animals or in the cooling processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk:

(A) no article, other than appliances, receptacles and other utensils used in the milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk, shall be deposited in a milk room;

th every appliance, receptacle and other utensil used in the milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, bandling. storage or distribution of milk shall, after each occasion on which it has been used and before it is used again, be thoroughly rinsed and washed and thereafter sterilized by steam or immersion in boiling water for a period of not less than five minutes; and

( the interior of every cart, lorry or other vehicle shall, when the same is being used for the conveyance of milk, be kept in a clean condition.

20. No person shall drink out of any appliance, receptacle or other Drinking, utensil used in any dairy in the milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk intended for sale.

21. (1) No person shall spit in any building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room.

(2) No person shall spit in any other part of a dairy save into spittoons or other receptacles provided for the purpose.

(3) A notice or notices, of a size and in a form approved by the Director and in a language prescribed by him, prohibiting spitting shall be conspicuously displayed in any part of a dairy in which cattle are kept or which is a milk room,

(4) A sufficient quantity of disinfectant fluid shall be kept in every spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy.

(5) Every spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy shall be thoroughly cleansed daily.

vessels pro- from milk

hibited.

Control of

spitting in dairies.

22. (1) No registered dairyman and no person who is employed Immuala.

Lion of in any dairy shall be engaged therein unless he has

dairyman.

certain discases, etc.

(a) within the preceding period of three years, been vaccinated etc. against

against smallpox, and

(6) within the preceding period of one year, been inoculated

against the enteric group of fevers.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services may from time to time by notification published in the Gazette require registered dairy. men and other persons engaged in any dairy to be immunized against such other diseases as may be specified in such notification.