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and milk ice, providing that such ices shall contain no fat other than
milk fat, except such as may be introduced by the use of any egg,
flavouring substance or emulsifying or stabilising agent. The Regulations
also provide thatnotype of ice-cream shall contain any artificial
sweetener.
The Labelling of Food (Amendment) Regulations, 1959, contain new
provisions relating to ice-cream, prohibiting the labelling, marking
or advertising of ice-cream in a manner suggestive of buttftr, cream,
milk or anything connected with the dairy interest unless it conforms
with the provisions relating to dairy ice-cream or milk ice referred to
above. After 30th November, 1959, it will be an offence to sell under
the description "ice-cream" any pre-packed ice-cream which contains fat
other than milk fat unless it bears on the wrapper or container a
declaration "Contains non-milk fat" or "Contains vegetable fat", as
the case may be.
MILK AND DAIRIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1959
These Regulations which replace the former Regulations include
the following principal changes:-
(a) The definition of "notifiable disease" has been amended by
the inclusion of "food poisoning".
(b) Distributors are required to be registered only with the
local authority in whose area the premises from which the
milk is distributed are situated.
(c) Provision is made for the local authority to pay compensation
to a person who sustains damage or loss through being
debarred by the Medical Officer of Health from certain
employment connected with milk because he is suffering, or
had been in contact with a person who is suffering, from a
disease liable to cause infection of milk.
(d) A notice prohibiting the sale of milk infected, or suspected
of being infected, with tuberculosis will operate until it
is withdrawn.
(e) The Medical Officer of Health is required to notify the
Minister of the withdrawl of an infected milk notice, as well
as providing the Minister with a copy of notices served.
(f) Compensation will now be payable to a dairy farmer who had
suffered loss or damage as a result of being served with an
infected milk notice only when the notice has been wrongly
served or has not been withdrawn as soon as possible.