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Importers are liable to heavy penalties unless margarine
or margarine-cheese, adulterated or impoverished butter,
milk or cream, or condensed, separated, or skimmed milk,
is imported in packages, tins, or other receptacles conspicuously
marked, and indicating the nature of the contents.
Power is given to the Local Government Board or the
Board of Agriculture to sample articles of food.
Power is given to the Board of Agriculture to make
regulations for determining the standards to be taken in the
analysis of milk, cream, butter, or cheese.
All packages of "Margarine" or "Margarine Cheese"
must be marked as such in f inch letters on the top, bottom,
and sides of such package, not on a label attached thereto.
When exposed for sale, it must be marked in 1½-inch block
letters, and when sold must be delivered in a wrapper marked
in ½-inch block letters "Margarine" or "Margarine Cheese,"
as the case may be, and no other printed matter must appear
on the wrapper. All manufacturers of and wholesale dealers
in Margarine must register the premises at which they carry
on their business with the Local Authority, and keep a register
of all Margarine and Margarine Cheese imported and sold by
them.
No one shall make, sell, or expose for sale any Margarine
the fat of which contains more than 10 per cent, of butter-fat.
Every person who, by himself or his servant, in any
highway or place of public resort, sells milk or cream from
any vehicle, can, or other receptacle, must have his name and
address conspicuously inscribed on the vehicle or receptacle,