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0.02%, the use of both of which is permitted in the United States and
in Canada. The Committee expressed the opinion, however, that no
additions should be made to butter and that a periodic review should be
made of the necessity to use any anti-oxidants or to permit the use of
others, not so far allowed.
The Food Standards (Preserves) Order, 1953, replaced the earlier
Food Standards (Preserves) Order, as modified in 1950, which had been in
force since 1944, since one of the worst periods of the war. It
abolished the distinction between fresh fruit and full fruit jams and
modified the quantity of fruit required to be present in various jams.
The main provisions remain, however, unaltered. Arising from the
effects of this Order it is interesting to note that various manufacturers
have endeavoured recently to place on the market various types of
fruit flavoured spread analogous to lemon curd. Lemon cheese or lemon
curd has been known for many years and shortly before the outbreak of
the last war orange curd appeared on the market. The Food Standards
(Preserves) Order makes provision for orange and lemon curds by requiring
fruit curds to contain 4 parts of fat, 0.33 part of citric acid
and 0.125 part of oil of lemon or 0.25 part of oil of orange, together
with a certain quantity of egg and the soluble solid matter not less
than 65 per cent. It will be appreciated that the stipulation that a
fruit curd must contain either lemon or orange oil renders it almost
impossible to market products such as banana or apricot curd without
inventing a fresh description for them.
The Saccharin Order, which had been in force in various forms
since early in the war was revoked and a new Artificial Sweeteners in
Food Order, 1953, introduced, This new Order prohibits the use of any
artificial sweeteners other than saccharin in food, and results from
doubts as to the harmlessness of dulcin and the believed harmful
effects of P.4000.
The Soft Drinks Order was revoked during the year and the Food
Standards (Soft Drinks) Order, 1953, introduced to take its place. The
chief effects of the new Order are to make provision for medicated and
glucose beverages, which had hitherto been manufactured since the outbreak
of the last war under licence, the application of minimum
standards to drinks for diabetics and to ginger beer and herbal and
botanical beers, and the omission of specific reference to non-alcoholic
wine, non-alcoholic cider and non-alcoholic perry, which are now considered
to fall under the heading of "any other description of soft
drink containing fruit juice". The Order similarly makes allowance for
soft drinks made from whole fresh oranges. This Order may give rise to
questions of interpretation and legality. The High Court decided that
there can be no such thing as "Non-brewed vinegar" because vinegar must
be tho product of double fermentation and many people believe that