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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 Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899,
do hereby make the following Regulations : —
MILK.
1. Where a sample of milk (not being milk sold as skimmed, or separated,
or condensed, milk) contains less than 3 per cent, of milk-fat, it shall be
presumed for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875-1899,
until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine, by reason of the
abstraction therefrom of milk-fat, 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.
SKIMMED OR SEPARATED MILK.
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.
EXTENT.
4. These Regulations shall extend to Great Britain.
COMMENCEMENT.
5. These Regulations shall come into operation on the First day of
September, One thousand nine hundred and one.
SHORT TITLE.
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.
©T. H. ELLIOTT,
Secretary.