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81 [1933

ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS—FOOD AND DRUGS
(ADULTERATION) ACT, 1928.
During the year 1,221 samples of foods and drugs, including 666 informal
samples, were submitted for analysis by Mr. Green, the Food and Drugs Inspector,
who purchased the samples for submission to our Analyst, Dr. Alan W. Stewart.
Of the total samples, 1,187 were reported to be genuine and 34 adulterated, or
2.7 per cent. This percentage is 0.5 below the previous year, and 3.6 below the
average rate during the preceding 10 years.
There were 18 prosecutions under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act,
1928, all of which were successful, 16 relating to milk.
Twenty-two samples of milk were submitted by the Inspector for bacteriological
examination, see page 49.
Fourteen informal samples were taken under the Public Health (Condensed
Milk) Regulations, 1923 and 1927; and five informal samples under the Public
Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923 and 1927, all of which were found to be
satisfactory.
In addition to this work, Inspector Green made 1,068 visits under the Merchandise
Marks Act; 3 special visits in connection with food poisoning, and
instituted prosecutions other than under the Food and Drugs Act as follows :—
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926 2
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926 5
Milk and Dairies Amendment Act, 1922 —
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915 3
No proceedings were taken under the Public Health (Preservatives in Food)
Regulations, 1925-1927, as such, but under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration)
Act, 1928.
Proceedings which would have come under the Public Health (Preservatives,
etc, in Foods) Regulations, and amending Regulations, 1925, 1926 and 1927, can
now be taken under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, in which provision
is made, Section 2 (4)— "Where any Regulations made under the Public
Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, as amended by any subsequent enactment
and the enactments mentioned in that Act prescribing the composition of any