Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1912
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Appendix J.
Corporation of London.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE.
Attention is called to The Public Health (Milk and Cream)
Regulations, 1912, which enact that:—
Part II.
Article III.—(1) No person shall add, or order or permit any other person to add
any preservative substance to milk intended for sale for human consumption.
(2) No person shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, or have in his possession for
the purpose of sale, any milk to which any preservative substance has been added in
contravention of the provisions of this Article.
Article IV.—(1) No person shall add, or order or permit any other person
to add—
(a) any thickening substance to cream or preserved cream;
(b) any preservative substance to cream containing less than 35 per cent, by
weight of milk fat;
(c) to cream containing 35 per cent, or more by weight of milk fat any
servative substance other than—
(i) boric acid, borax or a mixture of those preservative substances; or
(ii) hydrogen peroxide;
in any case in which the cream is intended for sale for human consumption.
(2) No person shall sell, or expose or offer for sale, or have in his possession for
the purpose of sale, any cream to which any thickening substance or any preservative
substance has been added in contravention of the provisions of this Article.
Article V.—(1) Every seller of preserved cream shall, in every advertisement,
price list, or trade list which is used in connection with the sale of preserved cream for
human consumption, describe that article as preserved cream, and in no such document
shall any words be contained which might imply that the preserved cream is cream to
which a preservative substance has not been added.
Prohibition
of preservatives
in Milt
Restriction
on the use
of preservatives
in
cream.
Declaration
of preservatives
in
cream.