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Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
In December, 1026, the Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Amendment
Regulations, 1926, were issued postponing the operation of the 1925
regulations so far as certain foods are concerned and making certain minor
alterations in those Regulations.
The dates on which the principal Regulations as now amended came, or will
come, into operation are as follows: —
(1) All foods except those specified below 1st January, 1927.
(2) Bacon, ham, egg yolk and articles of food containing
preservative necessarily introduced by the
use in their preparation of preserved margarine 1st July, 1927.
(3) Butter, cream and articles of food containing
preservative necessarily introduced by the use in
their preparation of preserved bacon, preserved
ham, preserved egg yolk or preserved cream 1st January, 1928.
(4) Articles of food containing preservative necessarily
introduced by the use in their preparation of
preserved butter 1st July, 1928.
In the year 1926, only four articles of food (other than butter, margarine and
preserved cream) purchased in the Borough, were found to contain preservative,
viz., cake 2, Swiss roll 1, sausages 1.
The following observations refer to samples purchased and analysed during
the year:—
Apples.
Thirty-five samples of imported apples were examined for the presence of
arsenic. In 12 of these no arsenic was found. In 22 the amount of arsenic was