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Municipal Buildings,
Battersea, S.W.
6th March, 1913.
REPORT OF THE ACTING MEDICAL OFFICER OF
HEALTH IN RE THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MILK AND
CREAM) REGULATIONS, 1912.
To the Health Committee,
In submitting my report on these Regulations, I propose
giving a brief outline of the purposes of the Regulations before
criticising them.
The Local Government Board is empowered by the Public
Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, to make regulations
for preventing danger to public health from the importation, preparation,
storage and distribution of food or drink intended for
sale for human consumption.
Such regulations may provide for the taking and examination
of samples and the recovery of any charges authorised to be
made by the regulations, and
For the purpose of such regulations, articles commonly used
for the food or drink of man, are by the Act to be deemed to be
for sale for human consumption until the contrary is proved.
Regulations have now been issued, and they provide as
follows :—
Part 1 (Articles 1 and 2).
This part merely gives definitions of:—" Preservative Substance,"
"Thickening Substance" (and specifically excludes cane or
beet sugar from both), "Milk," "Cream," "Preserved
Cream," &c.
Part 2 (Articles 3 to 7).
Article 3.—The addition of preservatives to milk intended for sale
for human consumption and also the sale or exposure for sale
of such milk is prohibited.
Article 4.—In cream intended for sale for human consumption the
addition of "thickening substances" to any cream, or the
addition of " preservative substances " to cream containing
less than 35 per cent, by weight of milk fat is prohibited, but
the addition of boric acid, borax or hydrogen peroxide to
cream containing 35 per cent., or more, by weight of milk fat
is permitted, and such cream is termed " preserved cream."