Hong Kong Regulations

DAIRIES REGULATIONS - REGULATION 31

Power of inspector to take samples and procedure in connection therewith

(1) An inspector may, for the purpose of analysis or bacteriological or other
examination, take samples of any milk while the same is at the dairy at which
the animals from which it was obtained are kept.

(2) In connection with the taking under the provisions of paragraph

(1) of a sample of any milk, the inspector may take such steps at the dairy as
may be necessary to satisfy himself that the sample is a fair sample of the
milk of the animals when properly and fully milked.

(2A) Where a sample is taken for bacteriological examination under paragraph
(1), the inspector shall clearly mark on the container of the sample the place
in the dairy from which the sample was taken.

(3) An inspector who, under the provisions of paragraph (1), has taken a
sample of any milk shall-

   (a)  except where it is taken for bacteriological examination, forthwith
        divide such sample into three parts, each part to be marked and sealed
        or fastened up, and shall give one part of the sample to the licensee
        of the dairy and, of the remaining two parts of the sample shall,
        unless he decides not to have an analysis made, personally submit one
        of such parts to the public analyst and retain the other for future
        comparison;

   (b)  where it is taken for bacteriological examination, unless he decides
        not to have such an examination done, personally submit the entire,
        undivided sample to the public analyst, marked and sealed or fastened
        up; and

   (c)  inform the licensee or his agent, if such be the case, that the sample
        was taken for the purpose of analysis or bacteriological or other
        examination as the case may be, by the public analyst.

(4) Any part of a sample which, under the provisions of this regulation, is to
be given to any person may be given either by delivering the same to him or to
his agent.

(5) In any proceedings under these regulations in which any sample taken under
the provisions of paragraph (1) is relevant, the part of the sample retained
by the inspector, if any, shall be produced at the hearing. (L.N. 407 of 1990)