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On the 14th November, the Minister of Health issued amending
Regulations relating to the above. These are primarily designed to
secure, that in the labelling of condensed and dried skimmed milks,
greater prominence shall be given to the words "Unfit for Babies,"
and that those words shall also be printed on the outside of any paper
or other wrapper in which tins of such milks may be enclosed. These
words must be printed on tins of condensed skimmed milk, or dried
skimmed or dried machine-skimmed milk, and the type used for the
words must conform to certain requirements as to size, etc., and be
contained within a surrounding line. The Regulations are obligatory
on and after 1st September, 1928, but labels printed in accordance with
the revised rules may now be used.
Public Health (Preservatives, &o., in Food) Regulations, 1925,
and Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Amendment
Regulations, 1926.
These Regulations were framed with a view to controlling the
growing practice of adding preservatives to an ever-increasing number
of articles of food.
From January 1st, 1927, the only articles which were permitted to
contain preservatives were:—Sausages and sausage meat, fruit and fruit
pulp not dried, dried fruit, unfermented grape-juice and non-alcoholic
wines, cordials and fruit juices, jam, candied peel, sugar, corn syrup,
gelatine, beer, cider, alcoholic wines, sweetened mineral waters, brewed
ginger beer, coffee extract, pickles and sauces made from fruit or
vegetables.
The following articles were permitted to contain preservatives until
a specified date:—Bacon, ham and egg yolk (up to July 1st, 1927);
butter and cream (up to January 1st, 1928). In addition to this,
margarine containing preservatives was allowed to be used for making
up food articles until July 1st, 1927; bacon, ham and egg yolk and
cream containing preservatives could be used for making up articles of
food until January 1st, 1928; and butter containing a preservative was
permitted to be used for making articles of food until July 1st, 1928.
The Minister of Health, in reminding the Council that the Regulations
would come into operation on January 1st, so far as they relate
to butter, cream, and articles of food containing preservatives necessarily
introduced by the use of preserved bacon, preserved ham, preserved egg
yoke or preserved cream in their preparation, stated that it was understood
that it might not be practicable for all stocks of preserved butter