{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-special-designation-regulations-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-special-designation-regulations-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2383",
  "legislation_title": "The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-special-designation-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Relations)\nThese Regulations re-enact with modifications the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1988, and provide for the implementation of Council Directive 85/397/EEC (OJ No. L226, 24.8.1985, p. 13) on health and animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in heat-treated milk.\nThe Regulations prescribe special designations (“Untreated”, “Pasteurised”, “Sterilised” and “Ultra Heat Treated”) for use in relation to the sale of milk and provide for the grant, refusal, suspension and revocation of licences authorising such use. In addition to drafting amendments, the Regulations make the following changes of substance:—\n(a) the notice to be displayed on farm premises where untreated milk is sold for consumption on the premises is “Milk supplied in this establishment has not been heat treated and may therefore contain organisms harmful to health” (Schedule 2, paragraph A5);\n(b) in relation to milk to which the designation “Untreated” is used, a sample taken in specified circumstances is required to satisfy a prescribed coliform test and a plate count test (Schedule 2, paragraph C3); in consequence, the methylene blue test prescribed by the 1988 Regulations has been omitted;\n(c) a sample of pasteurised milk taken in specified circumstances is required to satisfy a plate count test and a phosphatase test; the requirement under the 1988 Regulations for such sample to satisfy a methylene blue test has been omitted (Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph A5(2) and (3));\n(d) the requirement under the 1988 Regulations that an insulated container containing a sample of milk for transport to a testing laboratory shall not be artificially cooled, has been omitted (Schedule 5, Part I, paragraph 5);\n(e) the incubation periods and temperatures for plated samples of pasteurised milk to be submitted to a plate count test have been specified (Schedule 5, Part III, paragraph 3);\n(f) the words required to be stated on the label of a container of untreated milk, where the milk is sold before 1 September 1990, are “Raw Unpasteurised Milk” or “This milk has not been heat treated and may therefore contain organisms harmful to health” and, where the milk is sold after 3l August 1990, “This milk has not been heat treated and may therefore contain organisms harmful to health” (Schedule 6, paragraph 1 (f)).\nThese Regulations apply only to England and Wales. Information as to British Standards referred to in these Regulations can be obtained by post from the British Standards Institution at Milton Keynes or from any of the Institution’s sales outlets.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2383/note",
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  "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."
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