PURITY OF MILK

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 3

PURITY OF MILK

MOVE BY VENDORS IMPROVING THE SUPPLY (Special to THE SUN.') CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The Christchurch City Council’s challenge to dairymen and milk vendors to improve the supply or face municipal control was answered to-day by the adoption at a special conference of dairymen of the following recommendations, which were submitted by a special sub-committee: (1) The establishment of a laboratory where all milk supplied to the city should be tested at least once a week or twice if found necessary. (2) That where milk so tested is found to contain added water, if it is proved that this has been wilfully added, then the person responsible should be debarred from again supplying the city. (3) Where the milk will not stand the reductase test for three and a-half hours for the first offence a fine should be inflicted; for the second offence within three months a fine should be inflicted, and the licence endorsed; and for the third offence within six months the licence should be cancelled. (4) Where milk is found to contain :m undue amount of sediment, the dairy inspector be immediately notified, and if necessary the supply stopped until the trouble is remedied. (5) That all farms where milk is stored be provided with a good milkhouse, the interior walls to be lined and enamel painted, and provided with a suitable water supply to reduce the temperature of the milk to at least GOdeg. Fahr. (6) That the city authorities or health inspectors pay more attention to the vehicles used for the delivery of milk.