Sale of Pasteurised Milk Regulations

SALE OF PASTEURISED MILK [S.L.231.18 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 231.18 SALE OF PASTEURISED MILK REGULATIONS 1st May, 1978 LEGAL NOTICE 148 of 1977. Title.1. The title of these Regulations is Sale of Pasteurised Milk Regulations. Interpretation.2. In these Regulations "to sell" includes to offer, expose, advertise or keep for sale and to supply by way of compensation or otherwise. Limitation of sale of raw milk. 3. No person may sell for human consumption any raw milk other than to the Manager of the Malta Dairy Products. Sale of milk other than pasteurised. 4. 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. When milk is deemed to be pasteurised. 5. 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. Non-applicability of regulations. 6. Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to ovine milk.