Milk Ordinance for the City of South Bend

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SECTION 6., The examination of milk and milk products. - During each grading period at least four samples of milk and cream from each dairy farm and each milk plant shall be taken on separate days and examined by the health officer. Samples of oher milk products may be taken and examined by the health officer as often as he deems -necessary. Samples of milk and milk products from stores, cafes, soda fountains, restaurants, and other places where milk or milk products are sold shall be examined as often as the health officer may require. Bacterial plate counts and direct microscopic counts shall be made in conformity with the regulations of the Board of Health. Examinations may include such other chemical and physical determinations as the health officer may deem necessary for the detection of adulteration. Samples may be taken by the health officer at any ti.ie prior to the final delivery of the milk or milk products, All proprietors of stores, cafes, restaurants, soda fountains, and other similar places shall furnish the health officer, upon hi.s request, with the names of all distributors from whom their milk and milk products are obtained. Dio- assays of the vitamin D content of Vitamin D milk shall be made when required by the health officer in a laboratory approved by him for such examinations. Whenever the average bacterial count, the average reduction time, or the average cooling temperature falls beyond the limit for ,the grade then held, the health officer shall send written notice thereof to the person concerned, and shall take an additional sample, but not before the lapse of 3 days, for determining a new average in accordance with section 1 (S). Violation of the grade requirement by the new average or by any subsequent average during the r emainder of the current grading period shall call for immediate degrading or suspension of the permit, unless the last individual result is within the grade limit. SECTION 7. The grading of milk and milk products. - At least once every 6 months the health officer shall announce the grades of all milk and milk products delivered by all producers or distributors -and ultimately consumed within the City of South Bend or its police jurisdiction. Said grades shall be based upon the following stan- dards, the grading of milk products being identical with the grading of milk except that the bacterial standards shall be doubled in the case of cream, and omitted in the case of sour cream and buttermilk. - 6 -