{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995/schedule-4/part-II/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995/schedule-4/part-II/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1086",
  "legislation_title": "The Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-products-hygiene-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/II/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Raw milk, at the time of its acceptance at a treatment establishment, unless treated within 4 hours of acceptance, shall be cooled to a temperature not exceeding 6°C and maintained at that temperature until heat-treated.\n(2) Where raw cows' milk is not treated within 36 hours of acceptance at a treatment establishment, a further test shall be carried out on such milk before it is heat-treated. If it is found by means of a direct or indirect method that the plate count of that milk at 30°C exceeds 300,000 per ml, then such milk shall not be used for the production of heat-treated drinking milk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1086/schedule/4/part/II/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:10:45.908974+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}