Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1923-01-10
Ordinance No. 334
MILK ORDINANCE

spectlon or mllk, Sklm-mllk, Dutter-
milk, and cream and to establish and
enforce sanitary requirements for the
production, distribution and handling
thereof, and to require pasteurization
and for tuberculin tests for herds
supplying same and prescribing pen
alties for violation.
Be 1t Ordained by the City Council of
the City of DEBORAH, Iowa:
Section /. For the purpose of this
ordinance, milk is the fresh, clean,
tactical secretion obtained by the COM
plete milking of one or more healthy
cows, properly fed and kept, cream
is the portion of milk, rich in milk
fat, which rises to the surface of
milk on standing, or is separated
from it by centrifugal force, is fresh
and clean, and skim milk is the por-
tion of milk, poor in fat, from which
the cream has been removed. The
term skim milk" shall also include
the fresh, clean, tactical secretion of
one or more healthy cows and con-
tanning less than three per cent Of
milk fat or less than eleven and one
half per cent of milk solids.
Section 2. 1t shall be unlawful to
distribute or intend to distribute any
milk, skim-milk, or cream which is
adulterated.
For the purpose of this ordinance,
milk, cream, and skim milk shall be
considered adulterated:
In case of milk, cream, and SKIM
milk,
First. If any water or any other
substance has been added.
Second. IL it contains any visible
dirt Or be contained in any container
which is not clean.
Third. If it be obtained from any
animal having disease, sickness, ulcer
abcess or running sore, or which has
been obtained from a COW Is days be-
fore or Z days after calving.
Fourth. If it be obtained from a
COW stabbed in an unhealthful place
or fed upon any substance in a state
of putrefication or of an unhealthful
nature.
In the case of milk:
First. If it contains less than three
per cent of milk fat or less than
eleven and one-half per cent of milk
solids.
In the case of cream:
First. If it contains less than SIN
teen per cent of milk fat.
Section 3. 1t shall be unlawful to
distribute or attempt TO distribute
any milk, cream or skim-milk without
first obtaining milk license from the
Dairy and Food Commission of the
State of Iowa and recording such Ii
cense with the City Clerk. The City
Clerk shall keep a permanent record
of all such licenses and all revoca-
tionS thereof.
Section 4. 1t shall be unlawful to
distribute or intend TO distribute milk
skim-miIk or cream unless the same
is produced and distributed in strict
compliance with the following rules
and regulations:
(al All milk sold or distributed
from a wagon or other vehicle, shall
be bottled, but not be bottled on any
delivery wagon or at any other place
than in the milk house or milk plant.
and shall be delivered in the original
bottle.
Nothing in this paragraph shall
apply TO consumers taking two gall
Ions or more at one delivery.
CD No dirty or unwashed bottles
shall be received or be in the posses
sion of any distributor of milk. Milk
bottles, milk cans or other containers
for milk shall not be used for any
other purpose than containing milk
and milk products. Bottles, cans or
other containers shall not be left at
any dwelling or other building under
quarantine so long as quarantine Is
maintained, but shall be emptied into
a receptacle provided by the person
desiring milk at such quarantined
place.
(c) All raw milk. skim-milk, oil
cream shall be the product OF heal
thy COW or herd of cows as deter.
/ mined by a physical examination, and
produced from a COW or herd of cows
which have been placed or maintained
under State or Federal supervision
| for the eradication of tuberculosis
| provided that, a COW or herd of cows
shall be considered under such sup
ervision when there is on file in the
office of the Iowa Commission of Ami
NAL Health an application for such
supervision, or which have been test.
ed and found free of tuberculosis by
an accredited practising veterinarian
! A cow or herd of cows other thar
those placed under State or Fedora
supervision shall be tested for tuber
culoSis at least once each year, anC
where reactors are found they must
be removed and a retest conducted
within six months. No COW or cow;
| shall be allowed to associate with oil
be added to COW or herd of cow;
which have been found free of tuber'
culoSis, as above provided, excep
such COW or cows as have been found
free of tuberculosis. Such tuberculir
test of a COW or herd of cows, WHOSE
milk is to be distributed, may be APP
piled at any time within six months
from the date of the. passage of thu
ordinance.
Id No milk shall be distribute,
or intended for distribution excep
that produced from a cow or herd o
cows as provided by paragraph &c
hereof, except it shall first have beer
efficiently pasteurized. Milk shall b
deemed to have been efficiently pas
teurized when it has been subjected
to a temperature of approximate.
las degrees Fahrenheit and not les
than 142 degrees, and held at thi
temperature for at least thirty min
4 utes. Every pasteurizing apparatu
shall be equipped with a standar'
Il type automatic time and Temperature
recording device which shall be at
tached, adjusted and used in a man
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