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container thereof shall have attached thereto a label, tag or cap conspicuously 

 bearing on a clear, plain background the proper grade designation in the exact 

 language designated herein, and in a distinctly contrasting color, or if the cap 

 is made of aluminum or other metallic substance the lettering may be raised 

 or sunk by means of a die, and if such container is a bottle, the grade designa- 

 tion shall be placed upon the cap of the bottle. The grade designation, if 

 placed upon a cap, shall be placed on the upper half of the cap in an outlined 

 semicircle not less than one inch in diameter, which shall be reserved exclu- 

 sively for such grade designation, but no other lettering or other extraneous 

 matter shall be placed in the space reserved for the grade designation. The 

 label or cap shall bear only one of the following grade designations: Milk — 

 Raw; Milk — Pasteurized; Grade A Milk — Raiv; Grade A Milk; Special Milk — 

 Raw; Special Milk — Pasteurized; Certified Milk — Raw; Certified Milk — 

 Pasterirized. The cap or label on the container of such milk may bear zhe 

 words "Vitamin D" if the milk contained therein lawfully contains Vitamin D 

 in excess of the amount present in normal milk drawn from cows not given 

 any feed for the purpose of increasing the Vitamin D content of the milk 

 drawn from them, and if the sale of such milk does not violate any existing law 

 or any rule or regulation lawfully m.ade, and if all milk so sold, or offered or 

 exposed for sale, shall be milk as defined under authority of law. 



Any container of milk may be labeled with the name of a breed of cows 

 (such as Holstein, Ayrshire, Jersey or Guernsey), provided, that all milk in 

 the container so labeled has been obtained exclusively from the breed of cows 

 so specified. (See section 191 of Chapter 94 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.). 

 Any container of milk may be labeled with a statement of the name of the 

 state wherein such milk was produced; provided, that all the milk in the con- 

 tainer so labeled was produced exclusively in said state. (See section 13B of 

 Chapter 94 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) No false, ambiguous or mislead- 

 ing word, term or design shall appear on any cap or shall be attached to any 

 container of graded milk. 



All paper or pasteboard caps to be used on bottles of milk shall be so 

 stored or kept as to protect them from moistui'e, dust or contamination. 



4. General Procedure for Ascertaining Bacterial Standards: 



A sample of milk taken for the purpose of determining the bacterial count 

 thereof shall be taken only from milk intended for sale or delivery or from 

 milk intended to be pasteurized. If the sample so taken shows upon examina- 

 tion a higher bacterial count than as stated or permitted in the pertinent pro- 

 visions of these regulations, a written or printed notice of the bacterial count 

 thereof shall be sent within ten days after obtaining the result of such exam- 

 ination to the person from whom the sample was taken or to the person respon- 

 sible for the condition of such milk. If the inspector of milk, collector of 

 samples, department or board obtaining such sample takes additional samples 

 within a period of not less than seven days nor more than two months after 

 such notice has been sent, three such samples shall be taken from three differ- 

 ent containers at .substantially the same time, or, if the milk is obtained from 

 a pasteurization vat prior to pasteurization thereof, samples shall be taken 

 from three different fillings of the vat on the same day or from a single filling 

 on three different days within a period of fourteen days. An excess in bacterial 

 count, over that stated or permitted in the pertinent provisions of these rules 

 and regulations, occurring in a majority of such additional samples so taken, 

 shall constitute a violation of such rules and regulations. 



All bacterial counts shall be made by the Standard Plate Methods of the 

 American Public Health Association in effect at the time the examination is 

 made. 



5. Regulations and Standards for Milk Grades: 



(a) Milk-Raw shall be produced on a dairy farm that complies with all 

 pertinent rules, regulations and minimum requirements legally made or pro- 

 mulgated by the Milk Regulation Board, the Department of Agriculture, the 

 Department of Public Health, or local board of health, in effect at the time 

 of such production, and no portion of such milk shall be drawn from the 

 cow more than seventy-two hours prior to the delivery of such milk to the con- 



