Art. 3. Milk, whether cream milk or separated milk, may not be retailed if derived:—
(1.) From animals suffering from any disease, unless the sale of such milk is permitted
under certain conditions in virtue of special legal or other regulations.
(2.) From animals otherwise diseased, as, for example, animals with affections of
the udder, and also from animals suffering from cough, or emaciated, or which
show morbid discharges, particularly owing to retention of the after-birth.
(3.) From cows during the first six days after calving.
Further, the following may not be dealt in :—acid, or mucous milk, milk with
abnormal colouring, and, in general, any kind of sour or nauseous milk, and milk containing
extraneous matter, such as cow hair, byre dust and the like, or so-called preservatives of
any kind whatever.
Art. 4. The premises in which milk is offered for sale or undergoes preparation may
only be used for such purposes after being inspected by the police and certified by them as
free from objection.
They must always be kept as clean as possible and properly ventilated. Dwelling or
sleeping rooms, kitchens or other rooms used for domestic purposes may not be employed.
The premises used for the sale or preparation of milk must be permanently separated from
any rooms of the kind mentioned.
No other articles of any kind, except flour, pastry, bread, butter, lard, wood, eggs, fresh
vegetables and honey, may be offered for sale in the same premises as milk, without the
special permission of the police.
Decaying, ill-smelling, or fermenting articles, particularly petroleum, decomposing
cheese and herrings, must carefully be kept out of rooms in which milk is sold or prepared.
Art. 5. The storing, preparation and conveyance of milk must be effected in such a
way as not to influence its food or keeping qualities.
The vessels used for holding, conveying, measuring or selling milk may not be used
for any other purpose.
The use of vessels made of tin, copper or brass, of vessels of earthenware with injurious
or defective glaze, and also of cast iron vessels with enamel containing lead, is prohibited.
All utensils and vessels must also be of such a nature that they neither impart any
constituents to the milk nor alter the quality of the latter in any way.
Art. 6. Persons who are suffering from infectious or loathsome diseases, or who come
into contact with human beings or animals so affected, may not be entrusted with milking,
or with the conveyance, sale, or preparation of milk, or with the cleansing of the vessels or
the rooms in which the milk is kept or sold.
Art. 7. Rinsings, kitchen refuse, and other dirty substances or substances liable to
decomposition may only be conveyed in milk carts laden with milk if they are in a portion
of the vehicle completely separated from the milk, and are in closed vessels with tightly
fitting lids.
Art. 8. Milk intended or exposed for sale, rooms for the sale, storing, and preparation
of the same, and also milk carts shall at all times be open to the inspection and examination
of the police.
Art. 9. Vendors of milk must hang up a copy of the present Ordinance in a prominent
position in the shop, where it can be easily read by customers.
Art. 10. Milk other than cows’ milk (goats’, sheeps’ or asses’ milk) shall be designated
as such. In other respects the foregoing provisions, excepting Arts. 1 and 2, are applicable,
mutatis mutandis, to trade in these kinds of milk.
Art. 11. Contraventions of the present Ordinance are punishable in accordance with
Section 471, No. 15 of the French Penal Code, unless the Imperial Penal Code, or the
provisions of the Imperial Law of May 14th, 1879, regarding trade in foodstuffs, &c., are
applicable.
Mülhausen, August 11th, 1906.
