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is stopped at the request of the Sanitary Authority on account of suspicion
that it is infectious and whose milk is, as the result of further inquiry,
subsequently determined not to have been infective.
6. That Metropolitan Borough Councils should be empowered to refuse
to register premises unsuitable for the purpose of the sale of milk.
7. That the act of mixing water or separated milk with whole milk for
the purpose of sale should be made a penal offence.
8. That the London County Council should be empowered to take
samples of milk at any railway station in the administrative County of London
and to institute legal proceedings in respect of adulterations of such samples.
9. (a) That all warranties should be in a specified form and be properly
executed, and stamped
(b) That a continuous warranty shall be deemed to be a fresh warranty
in respect of each sale or transaction, and that it shall not be a defence to a
prosecution against a warrantor to allege that the warranty was given above
six months previous to the prosecution, provided the sample in respect of
which the prosecution is instituted was taken within the statutory period.
(c) That if the defendant in a prosecution intends relying on a warranty,
he shall give notice to the Local Authority, and the warrantor shall then be
joined forthwith in the summons.
(d) That the person giving the warranty to the retailer shall not be
permitted to plead as a defence a warranty that he has himself received, but he
shall be left to obtain his remedy at Common Law.
(e) That the onus of proof of the fact that the milk was delivered
unadulterated shall rest upon the warrantor at the hearing of the charge.
(f) That the certificate of the Public Analyst shall, in respect of a sample
of milk, proved to have been sold in the condition in which it was supplied by
a warrantor, be evidence against the warrantor.
(B) Canned Goods.
10. That the year of canning should be impressed on the cans.
11. That a certain proportion of the apparently sound tins (say one per
cent.) from each consignment shall be opened on importation, and the contents
examined under the supervision or instructions of the Sanitary Authority
concerned, prior to such canned foods being placed on the market, in a manner
similar to the examination at present carried out by the Board of Trade of all
tinned goods intended to be consumed on ships.