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Amendment of regulation 17.

Insertion of

regulation 20A.

(Cap. 132, Kab. Jeg.)

5.

or reconstitutes any milk or causes any milk to be processed or reconstituted for the purpose of sale.

(3) This regulation does not apply to milk which is processed or reconstituted on premises in relation to which a restaurant licence has been granted by the Director under the Food Business (New Territories) Regulations and such milk is solely for consumption on those premises.”.

Regulation 17 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following--

Kap. UL sub 13

"(D) No licensee under this Part shall distribute in the course of the business in respect of which such licence was granted, or shall have in his possession for the purpose of such distribution, any milk which--

(a) has been heat-treated more than once;

(b) contains at any time before heat-treatment more than 200,000 bacteria per millilitre or any coliform organisms in 1/1000ch (0.001) of a millilitre;

(c) after having been subjected to heat-trealment whether by bim or any other person, contains at any time more than 30,000 bacteria per millilite or any coliform organisms in 1/10th (0.1) of a millilitre;

(d) after having been subjected to heat-treatment by the Ultra High Temperature Method whether by him or any other person, has a colony count of 10 or more; or

(e) fails to comply with the standards of composi- tion relating to milk specified in the Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) Regula- tions.",

6. The principal regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 20 the following new regulation-

"Licensee not to process milk from un- Licensed dairies,

(Cap. 139. pab. Der J

20A. No licensee under this Part shall process or cause to be processed any milk unless such milk is obtained from a dairy in relation to which a licence has been granted under the Dairies Regulations.",

7. Regulation 39 of the principal regulations is amended in paragraph (2) by inserting after "19.", the following—

8.

**20A.".

The First Schedule to the principal regulations is amended by deleting paragraph 2 and substituting the following-

Sterilization

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(a) by homogenizing the milk by means of any process whereby the globules of butter fat in the milk are broken up so as to remain suspended uniformly throughout the milk which is then heated to and retained at a temperature of not less than 100 degrees Celsius for a period of not less than twenty-five minutes in the same containers as those in which the milk is to be disposed of for human consumption; or

(b) by the "Ultra High Temperature Method", namely, by heating the milk to a temperature of not less than 132 degrees Celsius und retaining it at not less than that temperature for at least. ong second and thereafter putting it immediately into tha sterilized containers in which it is to be supplied to the con- sumer, which shall be filled and sealed at the premises at which the treatment has been carried out with such aseplic precautions as will ensure the protection of the milk from risk of contamination.”.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

19th October 1971.

Explanatory Note.

Amendment of regulation 39.

Amendment of First Schedule.

Hamand

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Clerk of Councils.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

These regulations add the “Ultra High Temperature Method" to the methods of heat-treatment of milk prescribed in the principal regulations. Regulation 4 replaces regulation 13 of the principal regulations with a new regulation so that processing and reconstitution of milk for the purpose of sale, except where the milk is for consumption on the prem- ises, can only be carried out by the holder of a milk factory licence. Regulation 17 of the principal regulations is amended by regulation 5 so as to tighten control over contaminated or adulterated milk.

Regulation 6 adds a new regulation 20A which prohibits licensees of milk factories from processing milk obtained from unlicensed dairies.