Total Bacterial Count exceeds legal limit in Milk sample

Product name: Marks & Spencer British Skimmed Milk
Brand: Marks and Spencer
Place of origin: United Kingdom
Plant Name and Address:

Muller Milk and Ingredients
Oldends Lane, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, GL 10 2DG, United Kingdom
Importer: ALF Retail Hong Kong Limited
Net volume: 1.136L per bottle
Best before: 18.10.2023
Non-compliant test parameters:

Contains more than 30000 bacteria per ml and coliform bacteria in 0.1 of a ml.
Detected content:

Contains 61,000,000 bacteria per ml and coliform bacteria present in 0.1 of a ml.
Sampling location: The Centre for Food Safety collected the milk sample at import level
Remarks:

  1. Under the Milk Regulation (Cap 132AQ), milk after treatment by means of pasteurization should not contain more than 30 000 bacteria per millilitre or any coliform bacteria in 0.1 of a millilitre.

  2. The Centre for Food Safety will temporarily suspended the permission to import for sale of the product concerned granted earlier to the importer.

  3. The Centre for Food Safety will inform the British authorities of the incident.

  4. The Centre for Food Safety has informed the importer, will continue to follow up on the case and take appropriate action.

END/Friday, October 20, 2023