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GRADE A RAW MILK FOR PASTEURIZATION -- Grade A raw milk for pasteurization is raw milk from producer dairies conforming with the following items of sanitation. The bacterial plate count or the direct microscopic clump count of the milk, as delivered from the farm, shall not exceed 100,000 per milliliter, as determined in accordance with Section 6. Item lr. COWS--HEALTH--All milk for pasteurization shall be from herds which are located in a modified accredited tuberculosis-free area, as determined by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, and which have been tested for tuberculosis not more than 6 years prior to the adoption of this ordinance and at least every 6 years after such test, Provided, that herds located in an area that fails to maintain such accredited status, or that has an incidence of bovine tuberculosis in excess of .02% shall have been accredited by said Bureau of Animal Industry as tuberculosis-free, or shall have passed an annual tuberculin test. All additions to such herds shall be free from tuberculosis. In the case of milk not for pasteurization, all herds and additions thereto shall be tested and found free of tuberculosis before any milk therefrom is sold, and all herds shall be retested at least every 12 months thereafter. Said tests and retests shall be made and any reactors disposed of, in accordance with the latest requirements approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, for tuberculosis-free, accredited herds, in effect at the time of the adoption of this ordinance. A cert- ificate identifying each animal, signed by the veterinarian or attested to by the Health Officer, and filed as directed by the Health Officer, shall be evidence of the above test. It shall be unlawful to sell, offer or expose for sale any fluid milk or cream designated or represented to be "Grade A" fluid milk or cream with knowledge that such milk or cream has been produced from a herd of cows or goats, one or more of which are infected with brucellosis at the time such milk was produced, or with knowledge that all animals in such herd have not been blood tested for brucellosis at least once during the preceding calendar year. The results of a test for brucellosis by the State or Federal Laboratory of a blood sample drawn by an official veterinarian, shall be prima facie evidence of the infection or non-infection of an animal or herds or in lieu thereof two official negative milk ring tests for brucellosis not less than 6 months apart may be accepted as such evidence. All herds of cows or goats shall be blood tested for brucellosis annually or milk ring tested for brucellosis semi- annually. All herds showing any reaction to the milk ring test must be blood tested and all reactors to the blood test must be removed from the herd and disposed of within fifteen (15) days from the date they are tagged and branded. The remaining animals in the infected herd shall be retested at not less than 30-day nor more than 60-day intervals from date of the first test. A series of retests, with removal and slaughter of reacting animals, shall be continued until the herd shall have passed two successive negative tests, at the above mentioned interval, computed from succeeding tests in which no reactors are found. If upon a final test, not less than six months nor more than seven months from the date of the last negative test, no reactors are found in the herd, it shall be deemed a disease- free herd. In the case of milk not for pasteurization, all herds and additions thereto shall be tested and found free of brucellosis before any milk therefrom is sold, and all herds shall be tested at least every 12 months thereafter. Reactors