SALE OF PASTEURISED MILK REGULATIONS

SALE OF PASTEURISED MILK

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 449.10

SALE OF PASTEURISED MILK REGULATIONS

1st May, 1978

LEGAL NOTICE 148 of 1977.

The title of these regulations is the Sale of Pasteurised

Milk Regulations.

In these regulations "to sell" includes to offer, expose,

advertise or keep for sale and to supply by way of compensation or

otherwise.

No person may sell for human consumption any raw milk

other than to the Manager of the Malta Dairy Products.

Saving the provision of regulation 3, no person may sell

any milk other than pasteurised milk

Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to the selling

of preserved milk in sealed and appropriately labelled containers.

For the purpose of pasteurisation, milk is deemed to have

been so treated when it has been heated -

(a) to a temperature of not less than 71.7° of the Celsius

Scale (161° F) and kept at that temperature for a period

of not less than fifteen seconds and thereafter cooled

to a temperature of not more than 10 degrees of the

Celsius Scale (50° F) immediately after heat treatment;

or

(b) to a temperature of not less than 62.8° of the Celsius

Scale (145° F) and kept at that temperature for a period

of not less than thirty minutes, and thereafter cooled to

a temperature of not more than 10° of the Celsius

Scale (50° F) immediately after heat treatment and

which has not been so treated more than once.

Nothing in these regulations shall apply to ovine milk.