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1989 Ed.]

Milk (Regional Council) Bylaws

[CAP. 132

AR 11

[Subsidiary]

18. Requirements as to heat-treatment apparatus

(1) Every such licensee shall cause any plant or apparatus used by him for the heat-treatment of milk or any milk beverage to be equipped with such indicating and recording thermometer as the Council may consider necessary and so installed as to indicate and record the temperature to which, and the length of time during which, the milk or the milk beverage has been heated and the temperature to which the milk or the milk beverage is subsequently cooled.

(2) No such licensee shall subject any milk or any milk beverage to heat-treatment unless the apparatus used therefor

(a) is of a type approved by the Council;

(b) is thermostatically controlled; and

(c) save as otherwise permitted in writing by the Council, is provided with an automatic device to divert the flow of any milk or any milk beverage that has not been retained at the requisite temperature for the requisite period of time having regard to the method of heat-treatment used, from the flow of such milk or milk beverage as has been retained at such temperature for such period of time:

Provided that subparagraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply to any case in which heat-treatment is effected by means of the holder process.

(3) Every thermometer reading taken in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall be recorded and retained by the licensee for not less than 2 months, and shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times by a health officer or health inspector.

(L.N. 218 of 1977; 10 of 1986 s. 32(2))

19. Control of heat-treatment of milk or milk beverage from outside Hong Kong

Save with the permission in writing of the Council, no person shall subject any milk or milk beverage to heat-treatment other than milk or a milk beverage produced or reconstituted in Hong Kong.

(L.N. 218 of 1977; 10 of 1986 s. 32(2))

20. Certain ingredients not to be used in the reconstitution of milk or milk beverage

(1) No person shall use for the purpose of reconstituting milk or any milk beverage (L.N. 218 of 1977)

(a) any butter, milk powder, concentrated milk or other ingredient unless the same has been obtained from a source approved by the Council;