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sake of convenience the main provisions of these Sections are inserted
in this Report, as under:—
10. Section 8 (s.s. 3).—Any Officer authorised for the purpose of
taking samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts may give a notice
in writing requiring the Authorised Officer of a Local Authority outside
his own area to take samples of Milk at a Dairy supplying Milk to the area
of the former Authority, within 60 hours of the reception of such notice.
This sample is supposed to be one of a corresponding milking to that
which was taken by the Authority giving the notice, and is intended for
the purposes of comparison.
11. Section 9.—In conjunction with the Third Schedule of the Act,
provides that where a Warranty Defence is pleaded by a purveyor of
Milk, a sample from a corresponding milking must be taken in the course
of transit or delivery to the purveyor, and if the owner of the cows so
requests, a further sample must be taken at the dairy at which the cows
are kept. The Warranty Defence will not, however, be available when the
sample in respect of which proceedings are taken is a mixture of Milk
obtained from more than one seller or consignor. Power is also given to
take proceedings against the seller or consignor, instead of, or in addition
to, taking proceedings against the actual vendor.
BUTTER.
12. Actual adulteration could not be certified with respect to the
10 samples of Butter reported as inferior. (See paragraph 3.)
13. The remaining 45 "Formal" and 2 "Informal" samples submitted
were found to have the normal composition of unadulterated
Butters, or of Butter which must at present be regarded as unadulterated,
and they were therefore certified to be genuine.
14. Thirty-nine of the "Formal" and one of the "Informal" samples
contained Boric Acid, the amount being under 0-5 per cent, in each
case. Samples of Butter containing Boric Acid preparations and not
adulterated in other respects, are at present reported as "genuine" or
"inferior" as the case may require, and not as "adulterated." (Recommendation
D, Para. 136—Report of the Departmental Committee on the
Preservation and Colouring of Food, 1899.)
MARGARINE.
15. Actual adulteration could not be certified with respect to the
three samples (two containing Boric acid) of Margarine reported as
inferior. (See paragraph 3.)
16. Twenty-seven of the remaining 31 samples (one "Informal"
sample) of Margarine, reported as genuine, were found to contain Boric
Acid, the amount in each case being under 0.5 per cent. In no case
did the amount of Butter Fat in these samples exceed 10 per cent. (Section
8 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899.)