Regulate the Production, Transportation, Processing, Handling, Sampling, Examination, Labeling and Sale of Milk and Milk Products

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Page -2 SECTION 2 -A. Milk and Milk Products from Points beyond Inspection of City. All such milk and milk products offered for sale in the City of South Bend, or its police jurisdiction, must be processed in plants which process exclusively milk and milk products which comply with the Grade "A" standard of the City of South Bend. SECTION 2 -B/ Grade A Milk and Milk Products. Grade A milk and milk products, as referred to in the aforesaid regulations shall in this ordinance be taken to mean and include: Raw and pasteurized milk, extra rich milk, Jersey milk, Guernsey milk, homogenized milk, flavored milk, skimmed.milk, flavored skimmed milk, buttermilk, creamed buttermilk, cultured buttermilk, creamed cultured buttermilk, goat's milk, milk fat, light cream, whipping cream, a mixture of milk and cream, cottage cheese, creamed cottage cheese, concentrated milk and any other product made by the addition of any substance to milk or to any of these products and used for similar purposes and designated as a milk product by the health officer. Except as provided hereafter, for the purpose of interpreting the aforesaid requirements, the unabridged form of the Public Health Service publication Ho. 229, 1953 Edition, third printing, entitled, "Milk Ordinance and Code Recommended by the Public Health Service ", shall be used. A copy of said publication of the Public Health Service shall be on file in the office of the Health Officer for public inspection. Provided, Section 7, Item 1 -r of the above publication, shall be amended to read as follows: Except as provided hereinafter, a tuberculin test of all herds and additions thereto shall be made before any milk therefrom is sold, and at least once every twelve (12) months thereafter, by a licensed veterinarian approved by the State livestock authority. Said tests shall be made and reactors disposed of in accord- ance with the requirements approved by the United States Department of Agriculture,