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PASTEURISATION OF MILK OPPOSED AS UNNECESSARY HERE

Majority Favours Taking Every Precaution

AnBy-law 3. (a) Talm does not pro- hibit the sale of reconstituted milk,

in bulk, but it provides that where the products dre"sold"in"con», tainers these containers shall be of a type approved by the Council.

(b) This will prevent containers being filled elsewhere: than in the Food Factory where the reconstituted milk is manufactured and should prevent the mixing of reconstituted inlik with ordinary milk by, unaeru- pulous purveyors.

BEALING BOTTLES

(c) This prescribes how bottles used as containers shall be scaled, copped, labelled etc. (1) is self- explanatory. (I) is to ensure that the public will be given every op- portunity to see what it is buying. ()s for the special beneßt of the Chinese public. The exprciston chol cho- ̄nal, literally “again made milk" or "re-created 'mlik" hence "reconstituted milk," bas boen specially invented in this connection and we want to standardize its use. Hence no other Chinese characters may be used without the permission of the Council. The same applies to the Chinese expression for recon- stituted cream (iv) is self-explana- tory.

by an open qua paioaddu odam Baufiq ay ang suot send out to end to confer zones

pazesford pouzsɔuos raquudutos out to 300

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waqa kosindwa wafanyakazi apoi pics hanya sana ar jo ano pasado essay oxforɔ op v u ta

jusoiddu 203 da su u panikander jo superfasÀриs pur aus anzufrom a Buquando si wa copussandfeed zo sypiam-op par som du jo pojamas to off

a parema kupiaqɔć jjaunoɔ wwqan ayı jo Juppaw ayy There was full

in attendance at

reconstituted milk

moro minute, microscopically speaking, scnt: Mr. R. R. Todd (Chair than the globules of fat in fresh

"P. S. Selwyn- cow's milk, and therefore reconstitut- which the Dr. man). Hor. Clarke, Hon, Mr. R. M. Henderson, ed milk is more easily digested by Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Hon. Mr. infants. But the most important dif- ference between reconstituted milk T. H. King, Mr. F. C. Hall, Dr. R. A. de Chatro Basto, Mr. L. C and ordinary milk is that the former does not contain some of the vita- Bellamy, M.C., Mr. A. el Arculll, Dr. S. N. Chau, Mr. W. N. T. Tam, Mr. mins for instance those known as B. Wong Tape, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, vitamins B and C-which are present M.B.E., Mr. J. Watson (Secretary). in ordinary milk, and which help to make ordinary milk such an Ideal

especially

the meeting. there being pre-

RECONSTITUTED MILK

The Chairman, pursuant to nolles, moved the adoption of the by-laws relating to Reconstituted Milk and Reconstituted Cream as previously published.

Bre

By-law D. This is intended to en- sure that reconstituled milk shall be sold only in premises known to nod inspected by the Council either be- cause (1) they are registered as a Dairy or as a Milk Shop or (ii) they are the registered Food Factory in reconstituted milk is manufactured.

By-law 10. It is hoped that this by-law will ensure that reconstituted milk or reconstituted cream will not bo fraudulently told to the public] as ordinary milk or ordinary cream by unscrupulous purveyors.

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for infants, Vitamins are rather unstable substances of which comparatively little is yet known. They are easily destroyed by heat and the process of evaporat-

ng off the water in skimmed milk tain of these by-laws. The letter Don't hoard Moth Eggs, Grit

The Chairman continued: A letter has been received this morning from the solicitors representing one of the two companies and it objects to eer-

He said: Members are doubtless in order to produce skimmed milk! states that having regard to the short and Grime in your Carpets, Rugs,

aware that reconstituted milk and reconstituted cream have recently been put on sale in this Colony by two local companies. The products have been widely advertised in the local press. The by-laws which you are being asked to pass to-day re- present the efforts of the Health Au- thorities to trome legislation which will cover the manufacture and sale of these articles of food.

It is first necessary that I should explain what reconstituted milk is. The constituents of ordinary milk are generally classified as (1) milk fat, (3) solids-not-fat and (3) water, Milk fat rises as "cream" to the sur- face of muk which is left standing and may be separated off and churn-

is

it

powder results in the absence of:

of notice of the matter and is urgency,

der which is used in the manufacture

•

them

Carpets and Rugs should be thoroughly Shampooed & Dried

- Clothing, Drapes,

Loose Covers should be “ZORIC" Drycleaned-in order to be sure that moth eggs, grime, grit, etc. are completely got rid of.

Take no chances, moth eggs in textiles remain fertile and soon become active when Clothing, Carpets and Rugs are put into use again.

Send them to the cleaners before storing.

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vitamins in the skimmed milk pow they were instructed to send a copy Clothing, Drapes, Loose Covers, You do if you permit them of reconstituted milk. Vitamins pre- of the letter to the addillenal mem-etc.

pre-bers of the Council to crabic sent in butter will still be present to

it before this meeting. to go into storage without clean- In reconstituted milk and recon-

Unter

members stated that ing. stituted cream provided that these they had received these copies..

The Chairman: I would like to substances are not heated to too high a temperature during the process of point out that this particular com- manufacture

any has had anything but short The Urban Council has power, notice. A

♫ meeting was held in under Section 5 of the Public Health January at whi

at which their representa (Food) Ordinance, No. 13 of 1035, tives were present and since then I jo moke by-laws covering the manu have written several letters to them facture and sale of any article of I enclosed coples of the proposed food. It is considered essential to by-laws when the last letter was make by-laws covering the condi-writen some six weeks ago and tions of manufacture and sale of re-since then I have had no reply. constituted milk and reconstituted

Briedy, they first object to (c) cream in this Colony.

referring on the disc on which the ed into butter. The solids-not-fat

words "Reconstituted milk ar

cream" A CHEAPER PRODUCT

be

prominently as consist of proteins, lactose (or milk-

must "mik". the word It is obvious that, in order to make the sugar) and mineral salts (or ash),

They object to After the milk fat has been removed

fact that commercial success, reconstituted the

hat no other Chinese from milk the remaining

milk must be sold more cheaply than characters may be used on the disc known as skimmed mi may

The water ordinary milk hnd I conceive it to without the permission of the Coun- ini this skimmed

be be the duty of the Council to frame til. The words they use are, on near evaporated, leaving a fine powder by-laws which will ensure, inter alla, as possible "Hygienic milk" and the (skimmed milk powder) which con-

(1) that the public is not

misled

name on the botile is "Guaranteed tains all the solids-not-fat. We have into believing that reconstituted milk Safe Cows Milk Co." or its equival- thus separated our original milk into is identical with or as good ay cr- ent. However, if they are prepared (a) butter (b) skimmed milk powder dinary milk, and. (2) that the public to comply with our regulation as to and (e) water. (a) and (b) are gets what it asks for and what it pays the disc, I think we can allow them transportable and may be pre- for, for instance, if a customer asks to keep the battles as one must see erved almost

indefinitely, while (c) for "n battle of milk" he must get the disc firat. Our by-law does not available everywhere. Since the ordinary milk and not reconstituted prevent them using the words "safe changes undergone by the milk fat milk.

milk as

as long as they also use the (butter) and by the solids-not-fat (skimmed milk powder) are physical

I will now proceed to explain the is merely called "re-constituted changes and nut chemical ones, it is objects and reasons" of these by-pasteurised": and does not soy milk possible, by recombining them with laws.

at all. The words "safe milk," the water,

By-law 1. in the proper proportions, to

This is an attempt to legal authorities tell me, cannot be re-produce a liquid which has the define reconstituted milk and recon- appearance and most of the other stituted cream for the purpose qualities of "milk." This liquid is these by-laws only. In this connec

described nowadays pa

tlan I should make it clear that the generally

Urban Council has not the power to "reconstituted milk."

prescribe legal standards for recen- stituted milk or any other article of It is vitally important, however, to food. This can be done only by the

Governor-in-Council under

the note that "reconstituted milk" is nat "milk" and must never be allowed to powers conferred by the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, No. 8 of with ordinary fresh be confused

1935. It Sx

to nak Ja proposed

the milk. In some respects reconstituted milk is an improvement on ordinaryGovernor-in-Council to prescribe milk. Its composition is controlled standard for reconstituted milk iden teal with that prescribed for or- at the will of the manufacturer and maintained

dinary cow's milk (namely 3.25% of uniformly milk fat and 8.5% of solids-not-fat) whereas fresh cow's milk varles in

and to prescribe that reconstituted composition according to the weather,

the cream shall contain not less climate, season of the year,

25% of milk fat. cow's food, etc. The globulcs of fat

may

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than

-word reconstituted. milk. So far

prevented. of

The second point raised in the let- ter is that the company consider it ultra vires for the Council to make

by-laws which have anything to do with the way in which reconstituted milk is sold or advertised. Page 00 gives you the law, and the legal au- thorities say we liave the power in this respect.

Mr. Bellamy: Do you propose, to allow them to keep the bottles co long as their discs conform to the Council's requirements? -

The Chairman: Yes, I think so. In the Lablo discussion which the followed, members ex

examined bottled milk and discussed whether transparent covered by

By-law 2 (a) Premises where the disc,

reconstituted milk is manufactured wrapper, would not make it easier fall within the definition of Food for the disc wording to become ob- Factory" as given in Ordinance 13 vious to the consumer.

Another

of 1933, and not within the definition of a "Dalry."

(b) This is necessary because the manufacture of reconstituted milk is just as "dangerous” a trade as the production of ordinary milk. (e) This is considered necessary in order that the Council may satisfy itself that pasteurization is being properly, and emciently carried out. By-law 3. This is self-explana-

tory,

COMPULSORY PASTEURISATION

By-law 4. The best water to use would be distilled water, but Hong- kong's main water contains so little mineral salts that it is considered suitable for the purpose provided the Council is satisfed that there is no contamination.__

By-law 6. Preservatives can not be tolerated in reconstituted milk any more than they can be tolerated in ordinary milk.

N

By-law 6. The proviso in regard to colouring matter is necessary, be- cause some Imported butter, one of the constituents of reconstituted milk, contains added colouring mat-

no doubt generally barmless. By-law 7. This makes pasteurise- tion compulsory and is therefore sh advance on our present milk by-laws. The question of the compulsory par teurization of all ordinary milki still under consideration by the do- vernment. Nevertheless it is consi dered that all reconstituted milk and reconstituted cream should be, pas- Letirized:" Both the companies at Present manufacturing-reconstitujed mlik and reconstituted cream are of their own volition; pasteurizing their produota and zin peri Bas Yet

member asked whether the company its stock would be allowed to use all its wou

of bottles and whether it would have to get a different bottle eventually. This matter was not soilled.

Dr. Bhsta then moved an amend- ment to the proposal.

DR. BASTO'S AMENDMENT Ho said: Mr. Chairman, I wish to make the following proposition vizi-1. That the proposed bye-law No. 7 which makes the pasteurisa tion of reconstituted milk compulsory, be deleted altogether. 2. That the whole proposed bye-law No. 8 be de (Continued on 'Page 4.)

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