The Milk (Special Designations) (Scotland) Order 1988

8.—(1) Where any bulk milk which has, for the purposes of transportation, been heat treated in another heat treatment establishment is to be subjected to pasteurisation in accordance with this Order, the requirements specified in the following sub-paragraphs shall apply.

(2) Milk shall not be accepted for pasteurisation unless it has a temperature not exceeding 6degC. on admission to the heat treatment establishment and is retained at such a temperature until pasteurisation.

(3) The holder of the licence shall check and record the temperature of the milk on admission to the heat treatment establishment and immediately before pasteurisation.

(4) For purposes of identifying sources of supply which exceed a plate count of 100,000 per ml., in order to exclude such milk from pasteurisation in accordance with this Order, the holder of the licence shall —

(a) before pasteurisation take a sample of the milk in accordance with Schedule 5;

(b) submit it to the plate count test prescribed in Part I of Schedule 6; and

(c) record the result.

(5) The holder of the licence shall retain for a period of not less than three months the records made in compliance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) above.