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trials and pharmacological research and is not our business. However,
once the drug is on the market it is the responsibility of Food and Drugs
Authorities to ensure that its quality and purity is maintained. This we
accept and it is our aim to cover' all drugs in modern usage, provided
adequate sampling is carried out, to ensure that the public do not stand
risk of injury to health or prejudice due to the drug not being of its proper
nature, substance or quality.
During the year there has been a revision of the Soft Drinks Regulations,
but the revised Regulations do not come into force until July, 1964 They
have been disappointing. In my opinion the only satisfactory way of
ensuring that the public are not misled in their purchase of the various
drinks on the market is to have a stipulation that the fruit juice content or
fruit content is stated on the label, but the Ministry has not accepted this.
How many people know that an orange drink, often described as a whole
orange drink, need contain no more than 2% of potable fruit! And nothing
can be done about it. Similarly if an article is labelled Blackcurrant Syrup
it must contain about 40 per cent of blackcurrant juice, whereas by putting
in a little less sugar and calling it blackcurrant drink, even although it
may have the same vitamin C content, it need and usually does only contain
10 per cent of blackcurrant juice. These are anomalies which are carried
forward under the new Regulations. Fortunately an illustration of a label
which your Authority was able to put right and reported by the Chief Public
Health Inspector was the case of 'Sweetened Orange Nectar Pure Orange
Juice and Crushed Oranges' which was found to contain nearly two thirds
added water.
MILK SUPPLY
Food and Drugs Act, 1955
The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, .1860
The Borough of Sutton and Cheam is a specified area for the purpose
of the Milk (Special Designations) (Specified Areas) Order 1951, therefore
all milk sold in the Borough is designated Milk.
, The Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960 came into force on
the 1st January, 1961 in respect to dealers' licences, These regulations
consolidated and re-enacted with amendments the Milk (Special
Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations 1949 to 1954 and the Milk (Special
Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949 to 1953,
The principal changes are:–
(a) Dealer's licences (except for a few kinds granted by the Minister of
Agriculture Fisheries and Food) are granted by the food and drugs authority
for the area within which are situated the premises at or from which the
milk is pasteurised, sterilised, or sold, as the case may be; dealers'
licences permit sales outside as well as inside the area of the licensing
authority, and supplementary licences are now discontinued.
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