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That in the opinion of this Conference the provisions of
Section 25 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and Section 20
of the Food and Drugs Amendment Act, 1899, operate to the prejudice
of the purchaser and the public health and should be repealed, leaving
the seller of milk to his remedy at common law against the person
from whom he purchases it.
That notices in shops, &c., to the effect that milk sold therein is
not warranted as pure shall be no defence.
That the act of mixing water or separated milk with whole milk
for the purposes of sale should be made a penal offence.
That any Metropolitan Borough Council should be enabled to
sample at any railway station milk coming to dealers in the area of
that Borough, although the station may be in another district.
That copies of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded to the
President of the Local Government Board and the President of the
Board of Agriculture.
At the same Conference the following amendment was moved, but
not carried, viz.:—
That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable that steps
should be taken to obtain an amendment of the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts in respect to warranties in the direction indicated in the following
suggestions:—
(а) That all warranties should be in a specified form and be
properly executed, stamped and registered in a Government
Department;
(b) That a continuous warranty shall be deemed to be a fresh
warranty in respect to each sale or transaction, and that it shall
not be a defence to a prosecution against a warrantor to allege that
the warranty was given above six months previous to the prosecution,
provided the sample in respect to which the prosecution is
instituted was taken within the statutory period;
(c) That if, in a prosecution, it is alleged by the defendant that
the article was sold in the condition in which it was supplied to
him by the warrantor, or that the adulteration is due to a further
warrantor, it should be possible for the defendant to attach the
first or any further warrantors to the prosecution ;