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of the last few years a considerable amount of thought is being given
to this Bill and all interested parties should find an opportunity to
have their views expressed in one or other of the Houses of Parliament.
The Labelling of Food Order, 1953, was largely a re-enactment of the
previous Labelling of Food Order, but it released what are commonly known
as biscuits from the necessity of declaring their ingredients. It permits
the labels of intoxicating liquors to be printed either with a light
block print on a dark background or the reverse, it permits the addition
of emulsifying salts and edible starch merely to be defined as such,
when added to stated foods, and it allows preparations specified in the
British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex to be sold
without a declaration of composition. On the other hand it requires
French coffee and Vienna coffee to be labelled "coffee and chicory mixture"
or "coffee with fig seasoning" in substantially as conspicuous
wording as "French coffee" or "Viennese coffee" „ It also prohibits the
sale of solutions containing more than 15% of acetic acid by anyone
other than a pharmacist or an authorised seller of poisons unless the
labels are marked "Dangerous - not to be used unless diluted" together
with the relevant wording showing the concentration of acetic acid
present.
The Cream and Use of Milk (Revocation) Order, 1953, enabled home
produced cheese and cream to come on to the market again by removing
restrictions on manufacture and sale. It also permits the use of milk
in the manufacture of bread, biscuits, pastries, cakes, ice-cream and
confectionery generally.
The Food Standards (Ice Cream) Order, 1953, re-enacted the Food
Standards (Ice Cream) Order, 1951, and re-introduced the minimum fat
content of 5%, sugar 10%, and milk-solids-not-fat 75% of the
sugar must be sucrose, i.e. cane or beet sugar, and the other 25% may
be invert sugar or sugars derived from the hydrolysis of starch.
The Milk (Great Britain) Order, 1953, replaced with amendments the
Milk (Control and Maximum Prices) Order, 1951, and from, the public
analyst's point of view the essential factor in this Order is the permission
to sell Channel Islands and South Devon milk containing less
than 4 per cent of fat under their own names, so long as the prices
charged are only those permitted for other milks In the same categories,
i.e „ as ordinary milk, tuberculin tested milk, or tuberculin
tested farm bottled milk.
The Public Health (Condensed Milk) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953,
re-enacted the provisions of Regulation 60 CAA of the Defence (General)
Regulations and permits the sale of full cream unsweetened condensed
milk imported by the Minister containing not less than 7.8% of fat and
not less than 25.5% of all milk solids including fat.