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existing law. The section also provides out of what rate or fund the
expenses of the Local Authority shall be paid.
Section 11 deals with the case of failure of a Local Authority to perform
any of their duties under the Act, and makes provision for the transfer of
powers or duties from a defaulting District Council to the County Council.
Section 12 exempts the retailer from actions for breach of contract
if he is refused registration or removed from the register under Section 2
by reason of the quality of milk supplied to him.
Section 13, which follows the lines of Section 21 of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1875, provides that the certificate of a Public Analyst shall be
sufficient evidence of the facts stated therein unless the defendant shall
require that the analyst shall be called as a witness.
CERTIFICATION OF CERTAIN FOOD PRODUCTS
FOR EXPORT TO CANADA.
In view of the requirements of the Food Laws in operation
in the Dominion of Canada, a system of certification for food
products which are derived from the flesh of cattle, sheep,
swine or goats, or from game or poultry, and are prepared or
packed in England and Wales for export to Canada, has been
arranged.
The Certifying Officer—usually the Medical Officer of
Health—is required to keep himself informed, by personal
inquiry and in other available ways, as to :—
(1) The sanitary condition, structure and character of premises on which
the food products are prepared, stored or packed, with special regard
to the possibility of contamination of the food products at any stage.
(2) The cleanliness and wholesomeness of the methods employed in
preparing, storing or packing the food products.
(3) The precautions taken to avoid the utilisation for food purposes of
diseased, unsound or unwholesome material in any portion of the
premises; and arrangements for the safe disposal of any material
which, on account of disease, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, or for
any other reason, is unfit for human food.
In the case of products derived from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats,
the Certifying Officer must also satisfy himself that the animals from which
the products are prepared have been subjected to an ante-mortem and postmortem
veterinary inspection and found free from disease and suitable for
human food.