GOVERNMENT NOTICE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
No. R. 1029, 4 September 2004
FOODSTUFFS, COSMETICS AND DISINFECTANTS ACT, 1972 (ACT NO. 54 OF 1972)
REGULATIONS RELATING TO MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS: DRAFT AMENDMENT
The Minister of Health intends, in terms of section 15(1) of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972), to make the regulations in the Schedule.
Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations on the proposed regulations to the Director-General of Health, Private Bag X828, Pretoria, 0001 (for the attention of the Director: Food Control), within three months of the date of publication of this notice.
SCHEDULE
Definitions
- In these regulations, "the regulations" means the regulations published under
Government Notice No. R. 1555 OF 21 November 1997, as corrected by Government Notice No. R. 1278 of 29 October 1999 and Government Notice No. R. 488 of 8 June 2001 and amended by Government Notice No. R. 9 of 7 January 2000, Government Notice No. R. 53 of 28 January 2000, Government Notice No. R. 755 of July 2000, Government Notice No. R. 837 of 25 August 2000, Government Notice No. R. 1052 of 27 October 2000 and Government Notice No. R. 489 of 8 June 2001.
Amendment of regulation 4 of the Regulations
- Regulation 4 of the Regulations is hereby amended by -
the substitution in paragraph (b) of subregulation (1) for the expression "a standard plate count of more than 50 000" of the expression "total viable counts of more than 100 000".
Amendment of regulation 6 of the Regulations
- Regulation 6 of the Regulations is hereby amended by -
the substitution in subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) for the expression "a standard plate count of more than 50 000" of the expression "total viable counts of more than 100 000".
ME TSHABALALA-MSIMANG
MINISTER OF HEALTH