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bill giving effect to the recommendation that any prohibitions or
limitations imposed by the Public Health (Preservatives in Food)
Regulations, 1925, should be binding on the Courts in proceedings taken
under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875—1907, had been passed
into law. The first section of this short Act, quoted in full below, makes
it clear that for the purposes of Section 6 and Section 3 of the Sale of
Food and Drugs Act, 1875, articles of food must, when demanded by
purchasers, be assumed to comply with the Regulations, otherwise
offences under either or both of these sections have been committed.
"1.—(1) Where any regulations made under the Public Health
(Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, as amended by any subsequent
enactment and the enactments mentioned in that Act, prescribe
the composition of any article of food or drink intended for sale or
prohibit or restrict the addition of any preservative or other ingredient
or material to any such article, a purchaser of such article
shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purposes of
section six of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, to have demanded
an article complying with the provisions of the regulations, as regards
the presence or amount of any constituent, ingredient or material
specified in the regulations, and the addition of any such ingredient
or material, in contravention of the regulations, shall, for the purposes
of the said Act, of 1875, be deemed to render the article
injurious to health.
(2) "Where any such regulations restrict the addition of any
preservative, or other ingredient or material, to an article of food
or drink, the addition of any such ingredient or material to an
amount not exceeding the limit specified by the regulations shall
not, for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, be
deemed to render the article injurious to health."
Further list of legal provisions relating to food and food supply:—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Sale of Horseflesh Regulations, 1889.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902 (Ice Cream
Manufacture and Sale).
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907 (Milk Supply
(Tuberculosis)).
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 190S (Storage of
Food in Shops ; Fried Fish Shops, dc.).
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