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(b) ail of the rav; milk transportation facilities 



(c) all of the raw milk receiving stations that ieed 

 pasteurization plants, and 



(d) all of tne pasteurization plants that are physically 

 located outside of the Commonwealth and ship processed 

 packaged milk into the Commonwealth. 



Local boards of health and local milk inspectors have 

 historically, through enforcement of laws, rules, and regula-tions, 

 maintained the high quality of milk in the major marketing areas 

 of this Cornmonv,''ealth . 



The number of pasteurization plants in Massachusetts has 

 steadily been declining with the results that the distribution 

 from those plants still in operation covers wide areas of the 

 state. 



This bill would provide for a consistency and uniformity 

 of inspection of fluid milk from the time of production up to 

 and through the pasteurizing and packaging phases, by better 

 use of the skill, knowledge, and ability, of the local in- 

 spectors and the inspectors of the Department of Agriculture, 

 who are specialists in their field. 



The public at large will be thd chief beneficiary of this 

 bill because of better coverage in the milk inspection program. 

 Cities and towns will benefit by this program because they will 

 now have available to them tne inspection service of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture if they desire it. 



No. 4 - An Act Relative to the Control of Noxious V/eeds. 



