Malaysia legislation
Section 70
Section 70
(1)
The Minister may make regulations * making provision in respect of public health —
(a)
for the inspection of cattle on dairy farms;
(b)
for the inspection of dairies, and of person in or about dairies who have access to milk, or to the churns or other milk vessels;
(c)
for the lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage and water supply of dairies;
(d)
for securing the cleanliness of churns and other milk vessels and appliances;
(e)
for prescribing the precautions to be taken for protecting milk against
* See Public Health (Milk and Dairies) Regulations 1960 at page 95 infra. See also Act 281.
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infection or contamination;
(f)
for preventing danger to health from the sale of infected, contaminated or dirty milk, and in particular for prohibiting the supply or sale of milk suspected of being infected;
(g)
for imposing obligations on dairymen and their employees in regard to cases of infectious illness;
(h)
for regulating the cooling,* storage, conveyance and distribution of milk;
(i)
for the labelling, marking or identification, and the sealing or closing of churns and other vessels used for the conveyance of milk, the labelling of vessels in which milk is sold or offered or exposed for sale or delivered, and the display of the vendor’s name and address on any stall, or any cart, barrow or other vehicle, from which milk is sold or delivered;
(j)
for prohibiting or restricting —
(i)
the addition of any substance to milk, or the abstraction from milk of fat or any other constituent;
(ii)
the sale of milk to which any such addition, or from which any such abstraction, has been made, or which has been otherwise artificially treated;
(k)
for requiring milk to be subjected to a specified treatment before being sold for human consumption;
(l)
for prohibiting, subject to prescribed exceptions, the sale of human consumption of milk obtained from cows milked —
(i)
at any stage of a journey to or from a dairy farm;
(ii)
at a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard; or
(iii)
in any market or other place where cattle are collected for the purposes of sale or showing.
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(2)
In the foregoing subsection, ―milk‖ means milk intended for sale or sold for human consumption, or intended for manufacture into products for sale for human consumption.
Registration of dairymen, etc..