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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1990

BILL SPELLS OUT HYGIENIC STANDARDS FOR MILK PRODUCTION

HYGIENIC STANDARDS FOR RAW MILK PRODUCED AT DAIRIES CLEARLY SPELT OUT IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990, WHICH IS GAZETTED TODAY (FRIDAY).

HAVE

BEEN

PART UNDER THE DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1990 WHICH FORM

WITH OTHER MILK OR OF THE BILL, IT WILL BE AN OFFENCE TO SELL, MIX

ANY DELIVER TO A

MILK FACTORY

THAT

MORE THAN CONTAINS

200,000 1/1,000TH PART BACTERIA PER MILLILITRE, OR ANY COLIFORM ORGANISMS IN OF A MILLILITRE.

EXPLAINING THE BACKGROUND

FISHERIES

OF THE DEPARTMENT

OUT

AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, AN

AND

SPOKESMAN POINTED

THAT AGRICULTURE

FACTORY" BEFORE MILK IS MARKETED, IT MUST BE HEAT-TREATED AT A "MILK TO DESTROY BACTERIA AND OTHER MICRO-ORGANISMS.

"STANDARD FORMS

OF HEAT REASONABLY

SUCH TREATMENT

AS PASTEURISATION HYGIENIC RAW MILK AND CANNOT BE REQUIRE THE INPUT OF RELIED UPON TO MAKE HEAVILY CONTAMINATED MILK SAFE.

HYGIENIC

STANDARD

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DELIVERY

RAW ΤΟ

MILK IS OF

MILK

ACCEPTABLE

FACTORIES

FOR

"THE AMENDMENT IS TO ENSURE THAT

BEFORE

PASTEURISATION, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

STIPULATED ARK IN LINK COUNCIL) BY-LAWS

HE NOTED THAT THE HYGIENIC STANDARDS WITH THOSE CURRENTLY ENFORCED UNDER THE MILK (URBAN AND THE MILK (REGIONAL COUNCIL) BY-LAWS.

STAFF BY THE EXAMINATION

THE DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS ALSO PROVIDE FOR AFD TO SAMPLE RAW MILK AT DAIRIES FOR BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION

OF BACTERIOLOGICAL CERTIFICATES GOVERNMENT LABORATORY. ISSUED BY THE LATTER WILL BE ACCEPTED AS COURT EVIDENCE.

TURNING TO OTHER FEATURES OF THE

PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND SAID LICENCES GRANTED UNDER BIRDS) (AMENDMENT) BILL, THE SPOKESMAN THE PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS AND BIRDS) ORDINANCE SHALL BE VALID FOR 12 PRESENT, ALL LICENCES EXPIRE ON MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF ISSUE. AT DECEMBER 31 OF THE YEAR IN WHICH THEY ARE GRANTED.

DAIRY

"THESE INCLUDE THE

LICENCE, ANIMAL TRADERS' LICENCE, GRANTED то ANIMAL ANIMALS AND BIRDS EXHIBITION LICENCE AND LICENCES BOARDING AND RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS, HE SAID.

MEANWHILE, IT

IS

ALSO

PROPOSED THAT

FERS FOR THE

ANIMAL

TRADERS' LICENCE SHOULD GO UP FROM $800 TO $1,600.

THE ORDINANCE WILL BB THEIR DETERRENT EFFECT. 11 THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

MOREOVER, THE MAXIMUM PENALTIES UNDER INCREASED FROM $2,000 TO $5,000 TO MAINTAIN "PENALTIES WERE LAST REVISED IN 1970,

THE

ENDORSED BILL,

BY

COUNCIL EARLIER, THE EXECUTIVE TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO BE TABLED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR FIRST AND SECOND READINGS BY THE END OF OCTOBER.

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