§ 25. Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND-TROYTEasked the Minister of Health what steps he is taking to ensure that milk imported from foreign countries is produced under conditions as good as those laid down in the Milk and Dairies Order; and how he proposes to protect the public against imported milk which is not produced under proper conditions?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe Public Health (Imported Milk) Regulations, which I made at the same time as the Milk and Dairies Order, require all milk imported from foreign countries to be in such a condition that, on a sample being taken, it shall be found to contain not more than 100,000 bacteria per cubic centimetre and be free from tubercule bacilli. The Regulations are enforced by means of a requirement that an importer must be registered with the port or Riparian sanitary authority, and may be struck off the register if he imports milk which does not comply with the provisions of the Regulations. I may, perhaps, add that the amount of milk which is imported into England and Wales is practically negligible.