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in the proposed Milk Bill a provision prohibiting by statute
the sale of milk with added water for human food, thereby
preventing the practice of selling milk and declaring it (if
necessary) as "milk and water"-a practice which obtains
in the trade.
Notficaton to Traders of Results of Analyses.
The question was again raised during 1912 by the
London Retail Dairymen's Association as to the desirability
of traders being at once notified, by letter or post-card, (a)
as to the certified genuineness of samples taken under the
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, or (b) as to the certified
adulteration, where the amount of adulteration is not
sufficient to warrant a prosecution, thereby obviating
unnecessary worry to the traders concerned, whose private
analysts may have already reported privately to them to
the same effect. It is suggested by the traders that the
communication should be of a non-committal nature so as
to avoid any chance of the communication being construed
into a gratuitous advertisement. The Council, after consideration
with the other Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities
as to the various practices in vogue in the different districts,
decided to take no action, following their previous
decision arrived at in June, 1907.