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FOOD LEGISLATION, ETC.
Several measures for safeguarding the public health and interests with
regard to food supplies were introduced in Parliament during the year, of
which the following is a summary:—
Milk and Dairies Bill (see p. 36). (Not proceeded with.)
Hops Bill (see below). (Not proceeded with.)
Meat Marking Bill (see p. 108). (Not proceeded with.)
Sale of Margarine Bill (see p. 127). (Not proceeded with.)
Departmental Orders or Regulations were issued as under:—
The Public Health (Foreign Meat) Amending Regulations, 1909
(see p. 102). (Local Government Board.)
Tuberculosis Order of 1909, made under the Diseases of Animals
Act, 1894 to 1903. (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.)
(Withdrawn, in abeyance.) (See pp. 10 and 39.)
Official publications dealing with the following subjects were also published
during the year, viz.:—
Dr. J. M. Hamill's Report to the Local Government Board on
" facing " and other methods of preparing rice for sale.
Dr. G. S. Buchanan's Report on the work of Inspectors of Foods
for the years 1906-1908.
Reports to the Local Government Board by Dr. G. S. Buchanan
and Dr. S. B. Schryver on the Application of Formaldehyde to
Meat.
Reports to the Local Government Board by Dr. G. S. Buchanan
and Dr. S. B. Schryver on the presence of tin in certain
canned foods.
Report to the Local Government Board by Dr. J. M. Hamill on the
Use of Preservatives in Cream.
The above contain a mass of information, which will be found of much use
to all interested in the purity of food supplies.
HOP BILLS.
Several Bills were introduced in Parliament last year for dealing with the
use of hop substitutes in brewing, but although some of them came under
discussion in the House of Lords, they were eventually abandoned.