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It is now the duty of the public authorities effectively to ensure the
general inspection of meat offered for sale and they have the means of
doing so.
2. Purity of Milk. — The regulations relating to the purity of milk
date back to the Decree of March 25th, 1924, the main provisions of
which are reproduced below :
“ A. The following may not be regarded as suitable for human
consumption :
“ (x) Milk obtained from animals suffering from diseases, a list
of which will be issued by Decree of the Minister of Agriculture after
consulting the Advisory Committee on Epizootic Diseases ;
“ (2) Coloured, dirty or malodorous milk;
“ (3) Milk obtained from an animal within one week after
calving, and, in general, milk containing colostrum ;
“ (4) Milk obtained from ill-nourished animals which are
obviously exhausted (Article 2).
“ B. Under Article 1 of the Law of August 1st, 1905, the possession
without any legitimate reason, the display, offering for sale or sale
for human consumption of milk which is unfit for this purpose, or
milk obtained by mixing milk fit for consumption with milk which
is unfit for that purpose (Article 3), are regarded as attempts to
defraud the public.
“ Article 1 of the Law of August 1st, 1905, also prohibits
the possession without any legitimate reason, display, offering for
sale or sale :
“ Under the designation of pasteurised milk, of milk from which
all pathogenic microbes have not been removed by a method
approved by the Supreme Council of Public Health of France
“ Under the designation of ‘ sterilised milk ’, of milk containing
live germs.”
In application of Article 2 of the Decree of March 25th, 1924, the
Committee on Epizootic Diseases, after a lengthy and careful
examination, proposed that the following provisions should be adopted :
“ (1) Milk obtained from animals suffering from one of the following
diseases may not be regarded as fit for human consumption :
“ Tuberculosis,
“ Undulant fever,
“ Anthrax,
“ Symptomatic anthrax,
“ Gas gangrene,
“ Cattle plague,
“ Pleuro-pneumonia,