AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH

PUBLIC HEALTH (DAIRY) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 17 of 1975

	The Minister for Health has made Regulations under the Public Health Ordinance 1928-1975 to amend the Public Health (Dairy) Regulations to ensure that control over the processing and importation of cream in the Australian Capital Territory will be adequate after the amendment of the Milk Authority Ordinance 1971-1975 which, amongst other things, deletes controls over cream.

	Like milk, fresh cream has a comparatively short shelf life, is used in considerable quantities throughout the Territory and any pathological bacterial contamination of it may have serious consequences throughout the community.

	As well as modernising the controls over both milk and cream standards the amended Regulations will provide for the control of the importation of cream into the Territory.