The People's Defender

INTO EFFECT HERE

All Milk Sold In Restaurants In County Must Be Pasteurized

Publication on January 4, 1940 of the enabling form of the 1939 United States Public Health Service Milk ordinance and code, recently adopted for Adams county by the board of health, marks another step in an effort to insure a clean, safe milk supply for milk consumers in Adams county, according to local health officials.

This regulation, which becomes effective January 4, 1941, states that no milk or milk products shall be sold to the final consumer, or to restaurants, soda fountains, grocery stores, or similar establishments, except grade A pasteurized and grade A raw. In other words, except during temporary emergency periods, all raw milk and pasteurized milk or products sold in Adams county must be handled at the dairies in a strictly sanitary manner, approved by the United States Public Health Service.

Another provision of the ordinance provides that all dairy cattle must be tuberculin tested and tested for Bang's disease at the time the ordinance becomes effective.

Mimeographed copies of the code have been mailed to many dairymen and are available to those who have been missed, upon written or telephoned request to the Health Department.

In the near future Sanitary Engineer C. B. Parrett will visit each dairy for the purpose of explaining the regulations, and to assist in suggesting improvements which may be necessary to comply with the ordinance.

It has been proven in other communities where this same ordinance is in effect, that a regulated and graded milk supply pays dividends to producers in an increased demand for milk, according to the United States Public Health Service. These same authorities state that these communities are also free of milk borne diseases, common in areas where the sanitary quality of milk is not regulated.