The Dairy Products (Hygiene) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

PART I

A. General conditions for hygiene of production holdings

1.  All animals shall be clean and well-kept. Individual cows in a herd shall be identifiable by an authorised officer.

2.  Production holdings shall have the capability to isolate effectively from the rest of the herd any animals infected, or suspected of being infected, with tuberculosis, brucellosis or any other disease communicable to humans through consumption of milk.

3.  Any creature, including any animal of the species referred to in regulation 2(1) shall be kept away from premises and sites where milk is stored, handled or cooled.

4.  Pigs and poultry shall not be housed in premises where animals are housed or milked.

5.  Access to premises in which animals are housed or milked or any premises on the production holding in which milk is handled, cooled or stored shall be kept free from accumulations of dung, droppings or other offensive matter. Dung channels and droppings on the production holding shall be cleared as regularly as necessary.

6.  Adequate measures shall be taken to control insects, rodents and other vermin on the production holding.

7.  Store-rooms and cleaning rooms and the equipment in such rooms shall be kept clean, tidy and in good condition.

8.  The holding bay for ewes and goats, where it exists, shall be kept in a clean and tidy condition.

B. General conditions of hygiene applicable to staff

1.  The highest standards of cleanliness shall be required at all times of staff and persons engaged in milking and handling of raw milk. In particular they shall—

(a) wear suitable clean working clothes;

(b) wash their hands immediately before commencing milking or handling raw milk and shall keep them clean as far as practicable, throughout the milking or handling operation; and

(c) keep any wounds to the skin covered with a waterproof dressing.

2.  The occupier shall take all requisite measures to prevent persons liable to contaminate raw milk from handling it, unless there is evidence that such persons can do so without risk of contamination.

3.  Before the recruitment of any person for milking or handling raw milk such person shall be required to show that there is no medical impediment to such employment.