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The minimum standards for soft drinks prescribed in this
Order were continued with minor modifications in a new Order,
the Food Standards (Soft Drinks) Order, 1953, which came
into force on December 20th. This is intended as a temporary
measure pending consideration by the Food Standards Committee
of the future scope and level of these standards.
ARTIFICIAL SWEETNESS IN FOOD ORDER, 1953
This Order came into operation on the 1st September, 1953,
and prohibits the use in food of all artificial sweetening substances
except saccharin.
The Medical Research Council on the recommendation of the
Food Adulterants Committee informed the Minister of Food
that on the present evidence they regarded the use of certain
artificial sweetening substances as ingredients in food as undesirable
on health grounds.
FOOD STANDARDS (SACCHARIN TABLETS) ORDER,
1953
This Order came into operation on the 1st September, 1953.
It revised the standard for saccharin tablets prescribed in the
Saccharin Order, 1949.
FOOD STANDARDS (PRESERVES) ORDER, 1953
This Order, which should be read with the Food standards
(General Provisions) Order, 1944, as amended, replaces the Food
Standards (Preserves) Order, 1944, as amended, and prescribes
revised standards for jam and marmalade including ginger
marmalade. The standards for fruit curd and mincemeat
remain unchanged.
The standards prescribed apply as respects both imported and
home produced articles and come into operation by stages.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PRESERVATIVES, ETC. IN FOOD)
(AMENDMENT NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1953
These amending regulations which came into operation on
December 16th and re-enacted the Public Health (Preservatives
etc. in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953 with the inclusion,
as required by law, of an expression of the Ministers'
opinion that certain provisions are necessary for preventing
danger to health or otherwise for protecting purchasers, provide
for the sale and importation of certain specified dehydrated
vegetables which contain sulphur dioxide within prescribed