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Regulations for Milk and Cream.
On the 29th January, 1900, the Board of Agriculture by Minute appointed
a Departmental Committee to enquire and report as to what regulations, if
any, might with advantage be made by the Board under Section 4 of the Sale
of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, for determining what deficiency in any of the
normal constituents of genuine milk or cream, or what addition of extraneous
matter or proportion of water, in any sample of milk (including condensed
milk) or cream, shall for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
1875 to 1899, raise a presumption, until the contrary is proved, that the milk
or cream is not genuine and the Departmental Committee of the Board of
Agriculture reported on the 16th January, 1901.
Since then the Board have issued the following Regulations with regard to
the composition of milk:—
Board of Agriculture Rules (Dated 5th August, 1901).
Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901.
The Board of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by
sec. 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, do hereby make the following
regulations:—
(1) Where a sample of milk (not being milk sold as skimmed, or
separated, or condensed milk) contains less than 3 per cent. of milkfat
it shall be presumed, for the purposes of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, that the
milk is not genuine, by reason of the abstraction therefrom of milkfat
or the addition thereto of water.
(2) Where a sample of milk (not being milk sold as skimmed, or separated,
or condensed milk) contains less than 8.5 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 1899, until the contrary is proved,
that the milk is not genuine, by reason of the abstraction therefrom
of milk-solids other than milk-fat or the addition thereto of water.
(3) Where a sample of skimmed or separated milk (not being condensed
milk) contains less than 9 per cent. of milk-solids it shall be presumed,
for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to
1899, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine, by
reason of the abstraction therefrom of milk-solids other than milk-fat
or the addition thereto of water.
(4) These regulations shall extend to Great Britain.
(5) These regulations shall come into operation on September 1, 1901.
(6) These regulations may be cited as the Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901.
In witness whereof the Board of Agriculture have hereunto set their Official
Seal this fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and one.
L.S. T. H. Elliott,
Secretary.