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Notice to vendors of samples.—Your Council considered as to the advisability
of vendors being informed when no proceedings are intended to be taken
in regard to samples of food purchased under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
and passed the following resolution on the 30th October, 1912:—That in
future, in all cases where samples are taken under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, the vendors be informed, so soon as the Public Health Committee
have decided to take no action thereon, that they need not keep the
third portion of the samples any longer.
Sale ot Mill; irit/i Added Water. — X communication was received from
the fctepney Borough Council, forwarding copy of a report upon the result
of legal proceedings which were instituted against a milkman in their Borough
for selling milk adulterated with water,—the case being dismissed inasmuch
as the purchaser admitted to the Magistrate that she knew she was getting
milk and water.
The Stepney Council pointed out that the report emphasises the fact that it
is a good defence in legal proceedings if the milkman declares to the purchaser
that the article sold is milk and water, and that this is frequently done if the
milkman recognises or suspects the Inspector or his agent. Considering the
time had arrived when the sale of milk with added water for human food
should be prohibited by Statute, they asked, the Local Government Board and
the Board of Agriculture to take the necessary steps to insert a provision tothat
effect in the proposed Milk Bill.
Your Council concurred with this opinion, and a similar representation
was made to the Local Government Board and the Hoard of Agriculture on
the 3rd July, 1912.