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Sample No. 612: Cheese Spread.
The ingredients were not declared on the label, and the importing
company undertook to stop supplying the trade with this product until
the necessary labelling amendment had been effected.
Sample No. 617: Cress.
The sample was found to be rape and not cress: the retailers
agreed not to use the description "cress" for this product.
Merchandise Marks Act, 1926.
Orders in Council have been made under Section 2 of the Act
which require certain imported foods to bear an indication of their
origin when exposed for retail sale.
Thirty-two visits were made during the year for the purpose of
advising retailers on these Orders, particularly in regard to the sale
of imported apples, tomatoes and meat. Attention was also drawn,
in one instance, to the need to indicate the origin of prepacked mixed
nuts and fruit, and in two cases, fishmongers were requested to use
descriptions of fish from the names recommended by the White Fish
Authority.
Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941.
The Act requires that any article sold by retail which includes
a substance recommended as a medicine, must be labelled so as to
disclose the name and quantity of each active ingredient. During the
year the requirements of the Act were drawn to the attention of the
manufacturers of a Cough Candy and the company undertook to
market the sweets in future without any recommendation as a
medicine.
In another instance, the Department examined a skin preparation
for the treatment of blackheads, acne, etc., which failed to identify
the ingredients used. With the co-operation of the Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain agreement was reached with the company
concerned and approval given to a form of declaration as to the active
ingredients of this product.