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CAP. 139]

Dairies Regulations.

[Subsidiary]

[1970 Ed.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of paragraph (1), the following provisions shall apply in connexion with 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 time or during the hours of darkness;

(b) 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;

(c) the hands of any person who milks any animal shall be thoroughly washed before he commences the milking and shall, 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 be 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;

(f) 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;

(h) 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;

(i) every appliance, receptacle and other utensil used in the milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, handling, 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

(j) 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.

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tags for paragraphs. Minor corrections were made: 1. `ƒ` was corrected to `f` in sub-paragraph (f). 2. `lòrry` was corrected to `lorry` in sub-paragraph (j). 3. A semicolon was replaced with a period and "and" was added to the end of sub-paragraph (i) for consistency.