Milk Ordinance for the City of South Bend

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Vitamin DY milk shall be only of grade A pasteurized quality-. Grade A raw milk. - Grade A raw milk is raw milk to be pasteu- rized, the average bacterial plate count of which as determined under Sections 1 (S) and 6 of this Ordinance does not exceed 200,000 per cubic centimeter, or the average direct microscopic count of which does not exceed 200,000 per cubic centimeter if clumps are counted, or 800,000 per cubic centimeter if individual organisms are counted, or the average reduction time of which is not less than 6 hours; and which is produced upon dairy farms conforming with all of the following items of sanitation. ITEM lr. Cows tuberculosis and other diseases. - 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 12 months thereafter, by a licensed veledinar An approved by the State livestock sanitary authority. Said tests shall be made and reactors disposed of in accordance with the requirements approved by the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry for accredited herds. A certificate signed by the veterinarian or attested to by the health officer and filed with the health officer shall be evidence of the above test. Cows which show an extensive or entire induration of one'or more quarters of the udder upon physical examination, whether secreting abnormal milk or not, shall be permanently excluded from the milking herd. Cows giving bloody, stringy, or otherwise abnormal milk, but with only slight induration of the udder, shall be excluded from the herd until re- examination shows that the milk has become normal. For other diseases such tests and examinations as the health officer may require shall be made at intervals and by methods pre- scribed by him, and any diseased animals or reactors shall be dis- posed of as he may require. ITEM 2r. Dairy barn, lighting. - A dairy or milking barn shall be required and in such.sections thereof where cows are milked, windows shall be provided and kept clean and so arranged as to insure adequate light properly distributed, and when necessary shall be pro- vided with adequate supplementary artificial light. ITEM 3r.. Dairy barn, air space and ventilation. S uch sections of all dairy barns where cows are kept or milked shall be well ventilated and shall be so arranged as to avoid over- crowding. - 7 -