Volume 60
Public Law 79–887
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate within the District of Columbia the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes”, approved February 27, 1925.
Approved August 8, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate within the District of Columbia the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for other purposes”, approved February 27, 1925.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the third paragraph of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate within the District of Columbia the sale of milk, cream, and ice cream, and for
D. C. Code § 33–313.
other purposes”, approved February 27, 1925, be amended to read as follows:
“Pasteurized.”
“The term ‘pasteurized’ as used in this Act shall be held to mean the process of heating every particle of milk or milk products (1) to a temperature of not less than 143 degrees Fahrenheit and, if heated to not more than 159 degrees Fahrenheit holding at such temperature for at least thirty minutes, or (2) to a temperature of not less than 160 degrees Fahrenheit and holding at such temperature for at least fifteen seconds.”
Approved August 8, 1946.