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and the principal regulations so printed may be cited as the Public
Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Tenth
day of December, in the year One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-six.
(l.s.) R. B. Cross,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
The Commissioners of Customs and
Excise hereby consent to the foregoing
Regulations so far as they
apply to the Officers of Customs
and Excise.
A. J. Dyke.
C. B. Grylls.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, &c.
In December the Minister of Health issued a Circular
stating that, it had been represented to the Minister that a
few public analysts in reporting on a sample of milk which
is found to be deficient both in milk-fat and in other milksolids
word their certificates in such a way as to imply that
the double offence of the abstraction of fat and the addition
of water has been committed, whatever the relative degrees
of the two deficiencies. After consultation with the Society
of Public Analysts the Minister recommends that in such a
case the certificate, while following the general form set out
in the Schedule to the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875,
should be so worded as to show how much, if any, of the
deficiency of milk-fat is presumed to be due to abstraction,
allowance being made for the effect of the added water.
A new edition of Memorandum 36/Foods has been prepared,
embodying in a revised form the matter contained in
the previous issue of the memorandum, together with that
contained in a number of official circulars. The object of the
present edition is to consolidate and bring up to date the
principal recommendations of a permanent character which
have previously been made as to the procedure of Local
Authorities and their officers in the administration of the
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and other legal provisions of
a similar character.
Procedure under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, &c.
Memo. 36/Foods.
(January, 1927.)
(Composition and Description of Food and Drugs.)
I.—Legal Provisions.
1. The principal legal provisions relating to the composition and
description of food and drugs (apart from provisions as to poisons and
other special drugs) in force on the 1st January, 1927, are:—
(a) The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1907, viz.:—
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.