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Act, and to substitute a provision similar to the proviso in
Section 42 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to the
effect that where a person is charged with an offence under
the principal Act he shall be entitled, upon information duly
laid by him, to have any other person, being the wholesale
trader, manufacturer, or other person from whom he purference
xthe article, brought before the Court at the time of the
hearing of the charge, and if he proves to the satisfaction of
the Court that he purchased it as the article for which he sold
it, and that he sold the article in the same state in which he
received it, he shall be exempt from all penalties, and the
said trader, manufacturer, or other person may be summarily
convicted of the offence.
3. That in all prosecutions under the Acts, when two or
more persons are brought before the Court, the onus shall be
thrown upon the original defendant, to prove to the satisfaction
of the Court that he has sold the article as he received
it, and that the adulteration has been carried out by another
defendant before he shall be exempt from conviction.
4. With any article bearing a label, the label shall describe
the contents of the package, and when the contents are sold
as a mixture, the proportions of the mixture shall be stated.
The article sold shall be held to conform to the name or
description on the label to which the greatest prominence is
given, and any article differing in substance or purity or proportion
from such description or descriptions shall be held to
be an adulteration under the Act.
5. That a standard for milk, and milk products, and other
articles admitting of definition, should be fixed by the Local
Government Board, with power for them to alter in case of
exceptional seasons.
6. That all articles of Food and Drugs imported as
merchandise into, and landed at any port in Great Britain
and Ireland, which come from a foreign country, shall be
subject to examination, inspection and analysis by officers of
the Sanitary Authority of the Port, in the same way as tea is