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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1926
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1926
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First Schedule as permissible in the case of such article,
that is to say—
(a) A person who exposes or offers any such article
for sale by retail shall at the time when it is so
exposed or offered either cause the article to be
labelled in accordance with the Rules set out in
said Second Schedule, or cause a notice to the
effect that the article contains preservative to be
exhibited in a conspicuous place so as to be
easily readable by a customer; and
(b) A person who sells any such article shall cause it
to be labelled in accordance with the said Rules
at the time when it is delivered to any purchaser,
agent or broker:
Provided that,—
(i) Neither the requirement mentioned in paragraph (a) nor that
mentioned in paragraph (b) shall apply where the article
is exposed or offered for sale by retail or delivered to a
customer in a hotel, restaurant or other such place for
consumption on the premises; and
(ii) The requirement mentioned in paragraph (b) shall not
apply where the article is sold by retail and delivered to
the purchaser at the vendor's premises or stall if such a
notice as is mentioned in paragraph (a) is there exhibited
as provided in that paragraph."
(4) The words "in the case of butter" shall be omitted from
Article 12.
(5) In Part I of the First Schedule for the items numbered 2, 6 and 7 there shall be substituted the following items,—
| Food. | Preservative. | Parts per Million. |
|---|---|---|
| 2. Fruit and fruit pulp, (not dried) for conversion into jam or crvstallised glace or cured fruit as defined in items 6 and 7: (a) Cherries | Sulphur dioxide | 3,000 |
| (b) Strawberries and Raspberries | Do. | 2,000 |
| (c) Other fruit | Do. | 1,500 |
| 6. Jam (including marmalade and fruit jelly prepared in the way in which jam is prepared) | Do. | 40 |
| 7. Crystallised glace or cured fruit (including candied peel) | Do. | 100 |
| 7a Fruit pulp not otherwise specified in this Schedule | Do. | 350 |
(6) In paragraph 5 of the Second Schedule the words "on and after
the 1st day of July, 1927," shall be inserted after the word
''shall" in the fifth line of that paragraph.
3. Copies of the Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations,
1925, printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery
Office, may be printed with any additions, omissions or substitutions
directed to be made by these or any other amending regulations, but
with a footnote in each instance referring to such amending regulations;