RECONSTITUTD MILK AND CREAM BY-LAWS

RECONSTITUTD MILK AND CREAM BY-LAWS

(2) The registered proprietor of every dairy and milk
shop shall cause to be continuously displayed, in a conspicu-
oils position 011 every floor of his registered premises, a notice
or notices of a size and form approved by the Council, and
ill a language prescribed by the Council requiring all persons
present on the premises riot to spit on the floor : Provided
that the Council may, in its discretion, exe . nipt ill writing
any premises from the above requirement as to display of
notice, and revoke in writing any sucli exemption.

(3) The registered proprietor of every dairy and inilk
shop shall cause any phlegm, spittle or saliva found oil the
floor of his prernises to bc promptly swept up and ;
and, in the event of his providing one or more spittoons, shall
c~ause a sufficient quantity of a disinfectant fluid to be kept
continuously in such spittoons while ill use, and shall
thoroughly cleanse them daily at the close (if business.

33. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of
by-laws 2 to 4, 6, 8 to 11, 13 to 23, 25 to 29, and 32 shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand
dollars or to imprisonment for six months, as well as to suffer
any forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.

(2) Any licence issued under any by-law shall be liable
to cancellation by the Council on the breach of any by-law
to, which the holder of such licence is subject or on breach
of ally condition of the licence.

34. These by-laws may be cited as the Milk and Dairies
By-laws.

RECONSTITUTED MILK AND CREAM BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 140, sections 5 and 6).
(Ordinance No. 13 Of 1935),

[14th April, 1938.]

1. In these by-laws the terms 'reconstituted milk'
and 'reconstituted cream' mean products resulting from the





recombining of milk constituents, namely, milk fat, solids
not fat derived from milk, and water.

2. (1) No person shall manufacture reconstituted milk
or reconstituted cream for sale or for use in the preparation
of some other article of food for sale except in premises
licensed by the Council as a food factory for that specific
purpose.

(2) All homogenizing, emulsifying, pasteurizing, sterl-
lizing, cooling, refrigerating, cold storage, bottling, filling
or other plant or apparatus used in such a food factory for
the production of reconstituted milk or reconstituted cream
shall be of a type approved by the Council.

(3) Every pasteurizing plant or apparatus shall be
equipped with a self-registering thermometer device which
will accurately indicate and record the temperature to which
and the length of time for which the pasteurized product has
been heated. All such records shall be kept for at least two
months and shall be available for inspection at all reasonable
times by any health officer or food officer..

3. No butter or skimmed milk powder or other in-
gredient other than from a source approved by the Council
shall be used in the manufacture of reconstituted milk or
reconstituted cream.

4. No water other than water from a source approved
by the Council stiall be used in the manufacture of recon-
stituted rnilk or reconstituted cream.

5. No preservative shall be added to reconstituted milk
or reconstituted crearn.

6. No colouring matter other than colouring matter
approved by the Council shall be added to reconstituted milk
or reconstituted cream.

7. (1) No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or
manufacture for sale or for use in the manufacture of any
other article of food for sale any reconstituted milk or recon-
stituted cream other than pasteurized reconstituted milk or
pasteurized reconstituted cream.





(2) For the purposes of this by-law 'pasteurized recon-
stituted milk' or 'pasteurized reconstituted jileans
reconstituted milk or reconstituted crearn which has been
heated to, and retained for a period of no( less than thirty
minutes al, a temperature of not less than 14i degrees on the
Fah,reiz.lteit scale and riot more than i,5o degrees on the
Fahrenhell scale, and which has then immediately been
cooled to a temperature of riot more than SS degrees on the
Fahren.heit scale.

8. (1) Reconstituted milk and crealil
shall, except where intended for sale in bulk, be sold, offered
or exposed for sale only in containers of a type approved by
the Council. For the purposes of these'contiiiier'
includes any cover attached to a container.

(2) 'Fhe filling of al] containers shall be carried out only
in the licensed food factory, in which the reconstituted milk
or reconstituted creani is manufactured and shall be done, by
machinery or some other means approved by the Council.

(3) Every, bottle used as a container shall be constructed
of clear colourless Mass and shall be closed with a tightly
fitting disc and covered with an outer cover
lip of and securely fastened to the bottle. The outer cover,
or, if the outer cover is constructed of transparent material,
the disc or a prominent label or labels attached to the boille
shall bear-
(a) the name of the manufacturer in English
(b) the words 'RECONSTITUTED MILK' or 'RE-
CONSTITUTED CREAM' as the case may be.
The word 'RECONSTITUTED' shall be printed
in letters as prominent is those used in the word
'MILk' or 'CREAM';
(c)the Chinese characters or
as the case rilay be, printed in type as prominent as
that used for the English words 'RECONSTI-
TUTED MILK' or 'RECONSTITUTED
CREA,41P' and no other Chinese characters except
with the written permission of the Council
(d) the word 'PASTEURIZED'.

9. NO person shall sell, offer or expose for sale or have
in his possession for sale any reconstituted milk or recon-
stituted cream except-





in premises registered as a dairy or milk shop in
accordance with the Milk and Dairies By-laws, and
then only if his certificate of registration is endorsed
to that effect ; or
(1)in premises registered as a food factory for the
manufacture of reconstituted inilk ot. reconstituted
cream.

10. No person shall advertise, sell, offer or expose for
sale under a description or designalion including the words
or any substance purporting to be recon
stlotted milk ol- reconstituted creaniis defined in these
by-laws unless the words 'milK' or 'creaM' are immediately
preceded by the word ',reconsilluted' which shall be
exhibited with the same degree of prominence as the words
or

(i) Any persor, who acts in contravention of by-
laws 2 to to shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months,
as well as to suffer any forfeiture that may be prescribed
therein.
(2) Any licence issued under any by-law shall be liable
to cancellation by the Council on the breach of any by-law
to which the holder of such licence is subject or on breach
of any condition of the licence.

12. These by-laws rnay be cited as the Reconstituted
and Cream By-laws.

FOM) FACTORIES BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 140).
(Ordinance No. 13 Of 1935).

[1st January, 1936.]

PART I.

General.

1. These, by-laws may be cited as the Food Factories
By-laws.
[by-law 32, cont.] G.N.A. 87/51. G.N. 295/38. G.N.A. 87/51. [by-law 7, cont.] G.N.A. 87/51. Ord. 13 of 1935, s. 6. Schedule. G.N. 739/41. G.N. 749/41. G.N. 602/47. G.N.A. 87/51.

[by-law 32, cont.] G.N.A. 87/51. G.N. 295/38. G.N.A. 87/51. [by-law 7, cont.] G.N.A. 87/51. Ord. 13 of 1935, s. 6. Schedule. G.N. 739/41. G.N. 749/41. G.N. 602/47. G.N.A. 87/51.

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