200 APPENDIX B 



Grade C 



Raw Milk. Required dairy score, 40 per cent. 

 Pasteurized Milk. Same. 



CREAM 



Cream is classified in the same grades, but the bacterial 

 limits are higher. 



The bacterial count herein required shall be made only at county 

 or municipal laboratories or such other laboratories as may be ap- 

 proved by the state commissioner of health. 



In those municipalities where a bacterial count of the milk is, 

 in the opinion of the local health authorities, impracticable, they 

 may in their discretion grade milk and cream according to the score 

 of the dairies producing it, as prescribed in this regulation, but no 

 such milk shall be designated "certified," "Grade A raw," or 

 "Grade A pasteurized." * 



This regulation shall not be construed to rescind or modify any 

 existing local regulation or ordinance controlling the grading of 

 milk or cream established prior to the first day of September, 1914. 



The health authorities of any municipality may in their 

 discretion increase the stringency of these regulations or add 

 to them in any way not inconsistent with the provisions 

 thereof. 



It will be noted that the above classification is more lenient 

 than those preceding. In view of this fact and the circum- 

 stance that this is the first state classification, it may be 

 presumed that these standards may later be raised. 



RICHMOND, VA. 



Richmond, Va., a city of some 150,000, the health depart- 

 ment of which has long been active in clean milk work, has 



Such authorizing of grades according to dairy scores alone is a very 

 serious defect of this system. See footnote, p. 193. J. S. M. 



