Evening star., 1939-06-20

in Washington This grade A pas
teurized has been described as milk
which has been made as safe and as
palatable" as possible There could
be no degrading from pasteurized to
raw milk or vica versa, because
they are in separate classes, and
not graded one above the other.
The present District regulations
control of cream and three kinds of
milk; Pasteurized grade A milk,
raw milk and certified milk, which
has not been pasteurized. but is
super-grade article of raw.
Further protection could be
thrown by the Schultz bill around
the milk coming in from outside
the present Washington milkshed.
by inspection, it was explained by
Mr.. Fuchs.
Provides for Inspections.
The bill provides that inspections
of farms and distributing plants
shipping milk to Washington.
wherever they are located. should
be made by the health officer or
his deputies, except in certain spec
ified instances. These exceptions
are provided for by what is known
as section II, of the Federal Code,
which reads as follows
Milk and milk products from
points beyond the limits of routine
inspection of the city may not be
sold in the city or its police juris-
diction. unless produced. and or
pasteurized under provisions equiva-
lent to the requirements of this
ordinance; provided that the health
officer shall satisfy himself that
the health officer having jurisdic-
ton over the production and proc
essing is properly enforcing such
provisions.
This item is intended" points
out section II, Ito permit the
health officer to bar milk and milk
products shipped in from great
distances unless he can assure him.
self that they meet the provisions
of the ordinance. Under no con-
ditions should the health officer
authorize the receipt of such ship
ments if arrangements cannot be
made for supervision. unless an
emergency exists. in which case per-
mission should be given for its re-
ceipt. provided it is labeled 'un-
graded milk when distributed.
1T is suggested" continues Sec
ton II, that the health officer
approve milk or milk products from
distant points without his inspec-
ton if they are produced and proc
essed under regulations equivalent
to those of this ordinance, and If
the milk or milk products have been
awarded by the State-control agency
a rating of 80 per cent or more on
the basis of the Public Health Serv-
ice rating method"
Publishes List Twice Yearly.
Under this rating method. re-
ferred to in Section IL, the Public
Health Service publishes twice a
year a list of the communities
which have achieved a rating of
80 per cent or more. Those which
fail to reach the 80 per cent figure
are simply omitted from the list,
as unworthy of the honor.
The District of Columbia was sub
mitted to the same percentage sys-
tenn of rating applied to the Fed
eral code communities, when Mr..
Fuchs made his survey Of the milk
situation here in 1888.
He reported that nine raw milk
producer distributors, all pasteuri-
zation plants, a collecting station
gathering milk from many distribu-
tors, and SO producing farms Sc
lected at random in five of the
eight milk districts were inspected.
In this way a representative cross
section of the District of Columbia
milk supply was obtained.
The ratings computed for the
District of Columbia we're as fol-
lows: Cd retail raw milk. 831 per
cent; ca pre-pasteurized raw milk,
Ola per cent; and pasteurization
plants, 75.4 per cent, or pasteur-
lied milk rating of 1874 per cent.
'"The present ratings" declared
Mr.. Fuchs report, indicate con-
siderable improvement on pasteur-
ization plants, and a slight i'm
provement in raw-to-plant milk, but
no improvement in retail raw milk
since the survey made in January
1886 by DR.. F. A. Clark of the United
States Public Health Service. Many
of the defects found III pasteuriza-
ton plants in the present survey are
now being remedied."
"The bacterial counts are excel
lent" reported Mr.. Fuchs, on the
District milk supply. = During the