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(c) condensed, separated, or skimmed milk, except in tins
or other receptacles which bear a label whereon the
words "Machine-skimmed Milk" or "Skimmed
Milk," as the case may require, are printed in large
and legible type ; or
(d) any adulterated or impoverished article of food to
which Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct
that this section shall be applied, unless the same be
imported in packages or receptacles conspicuously
marked with a name or description indicating that
the article has been so treated;
the importer shall be liable, on summary conviction, for the
first offence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, for the
second offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and for any
subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Prosecutions under this Section are to be undertaken by the
Commissioners of Customs, who are empowered to take such
samples of consignments of imported articles of food as may
be necessary for the enforcement of the foregoing provisions.
When the Commissioners of Customs thus take a sample of a
consignment they are to divide it into not less than three
parts, and send one part to the principal chemist of the
Government laboratories for analysis. For the purposes of
this section, an article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated
or impoverished if it has been mixed with any other
substance, or if any part of it has been abstracted so as in
either case to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or
nature. But an article of food shall not be deemed to be
adulterated by reason only of the addition of any preservative
or colouring matter of such a nature and in such quantity as
not to render the article injurious to health.
Section 2 empowers the Local Government Board, in
relation to any matter appearing to that Board to affect the
general interest of the consumer, and the Board of Agriculture,
in relation to any matter appearing to that Board to affect the
general interests of agriculture in the United Kingdom, to
direct an officer to procure for analysis samples of any article
of food, and thereupon the officer shall have all the powers of
procuring samples conferred by the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts, and those Acts shall apply as if the officer were an officer
authorised to procure samples under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1875.