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In Bow two premises are each registered as being used for the
purposes of a wholesale dealer in margarine and milk-blended
butter.
An application was made for registration of premises in Hawgood
Street, Bromley (being an extension of premises already registered), as a
butter factory. The premises were entered on the register, of which fact
the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries was informed, and the necessary
certificate was furnished to the applicants.
The Sale of Milk Regulations, 1912. Dated June 29, 1912.
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers
conferred on them by section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899,
made the following Regulations
Where a sample of skimmed or separated milk (not being condensed
milk) contains less than 8.7 per cent, of milk solids other than milk-fat,
it shall be presumed for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
1875 to 1907, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine
by reason of either the addition thereto of water, or the abstraction
therefrom of milk-solids other than milk-fat.
The Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912.
The Local Government Board made an order under the Public Health
(Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, to secure that no preservative shall
be added to milk (or to cream containing less than 35 per cent, by weight
of milk fat) at any stage from the place of production to that of delivery
to the purchaser.
The Regulations are designed to secure that no preservative shall be
added to milk, or to cream containing less than 35 per cent, by weight
of milk fat, at any stage from the place of production to that of delivery
to the purchaser. In the case of cream containing over 35 per cent, of
milk fat, the addition of boric acid, borax or a mixture of these preservative
substances, or of hydrogen peroxide, is not prohibited by the
Regulations, but is subject to a system of declaration which is required
to be followed by all persons dealing with such cream for the purpose of
sale for human consumption. By this system (Part II. of the Regulations)
it is intended that preserved cream as an article of commerce shall in all
stages be differentiated from cream, to which no preservative has been
added. Further, Article IV. (a) prohibits the addition of any thickening
substance to cream or preserved cream.