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satisfactory to the Justice is adduced that the food in question, although
unsound, is not intended for sale for human consumption, he is required
to make an order dismissing the complaint. A description of the food in
question is to be given in any such order of dismissal, and a copy of the
order is to be furnished to the Sanitary Authority.
Article VII. requires the Sanitary Authority to keep for a period of
not less than twelve months a record of any article of food destroyed or
disposed of in pursuance of the Regulations.
Provision for Determination of Differences, etc.
Article XIII. empowers the Board, on the application of all the
parties affected, to determine, either as arbitrators or otherwise, any
difference arising in relation to any subject-matter of, or anything done
under, the Regulations.
Foreign Meat Regulations.
On ]2th September the Local Government Board issued Foreign
Meat Regulations (which was published in the "London Gazette" on the
15th September) under the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act,
1907, for the purpose of preventing danger to the public health from
importation, preparation, storage, and distribution of articles of food or
drink other than drugs or water. The Regulations were to come into
operation on the 1st day of January, 1909, but the Borough of Poplar
was not included as one of the Sanitary Authorities under the Regulations.
The Local Government Board issued an order on the 29th January
requiring the Port Sanitary Authority and the Poplar Borough Council to
act together for the purposes of the Regulations.
Object of the Regulations.
The Regulations are designed to deal with foreign boneless meat
which is imported in the form of scraps, trimmings, or other pieces not
sufficiently identifiable with definite parts of a carcase, and which has not
before importation been made ready for human consumption in the form
of a sausage, or of another prepared or manufactured article of food;
with imported tripe, tongues, or kidneys to which certain chemical preservatives
have been applied; and with severed parts of a pig not prepared
before importation as bacon or ham, and not contained in a package with
an "official certificate" of the kind referred to below unopened on it or
attached to it. These meats are classed together in the Regulations as
"Foreign Meat of Class I.," and unless ths importer of meat of this class