S.I. No. 196/1957:

PASTEURISING (SEPARATED MILK) REGULATIONS, 1957.

PASTEURISING (SEPARATED MILK) REGULATIONS, 1957.

I, SEÁN MOYLAN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 30 of the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (No. 58 of 1924), as amended by section 4 of the Diseases of Animals (Bovine Tuberculosis) Act, 1957 (No. 16 of 1957), hereby make the following Regulations :

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pasteurising (Separated Milk) Regulations, 1957.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1958.

2. In these Regulations " registered premises " means premises registered in the register of creameries or the register of cream separating stations.

3. All registered premises are hereby required to be equipped with plant for pasteurising separated milk.

4. Separated milk which is to be returned from registered premises to milk suppliers or disposed of therefrom for animal feeding shall be pasteurised on those premises.

5. (1) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to pasteurising pursuant to these Regulations :

(a) pasteurising shall be effected by the high-temperature short-time method with heat regeneration, either the whole milk or the separated milk only to be heated to a temperature of not less than 176° Fahrenheit and held at that temperature for not less than 15 seconds,

(b) the heating medium may be steam or water,

(c) a holding section shall be fitted to the plant,

(d) a recording thermometer and registering stem thermometer shall be fitted at the end of the heating section of the plant.

(2) In subparagraph (a) of the foregoing paragraph the reference to 176° Fahrenheit shall be construed as a reference to 165° Fahrenheit if the plant includes cooling section, automatic temperature control and flow diversion valve.

6. (1) Records of the temperatures of separated milk during pasteurising pursuant to these Regulations, being records recorded automatically with respect to each day, shall be kept at registered premises.

(2) Such records shall be retained for a period of three months at the registered premises and shall be made available for inspection by any inspector who (on production, if required, of his authority as such inspector) requests during that period their production.

7. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Article, where, at the commencement of these Regulations, registered premises are not equipped with plant for pasteurising separated milk, nothing in Articles 3 to 6 of these Regulations shall apply in relation to the premises if and so long as separated milk which is to be returned from the premises to milk suppliers or disposed of therefrom for animal feeding is rendered safe by treatment on the premises by steam injection.

(2) Paragraph (1) of this Article shall cease to have effect with respect to premises on the expiration of the period beginning on the commencement of these Regulations and ending on--

(a) the 30th day of April, 1959, or

(b) if the premises become equipped with plant for pasteurising separated milk before the 30th day of April, 1959, the day on which they become so equipped.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 8th day of October, 1957.

SEÁN MOYLAN,

Minister for Agriculture.

Explanatory Note.

As one of the measures designed to expedite eradication of bovine tuberculosis, this Order provides that all registered creameries and cream-separating stations must, not later than the 30th April, 1959, be equipped with plant for the pasteurisation of separated milk by a specified method, and must so pasteurise all separated milk returned to milk suppliers or disposed of for animal feeding. As a temporary requirement, in the period from the 1st January, 1958, up to the time (not later than the 30th April, 1959) of installation of pasteurising plant at any particular premises, the separated milk returned to milk suppliers or disposed of for animal feeding must be rendered safe by treatment on the premises by steam injection.