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SECOND SCHEDULE.
Meat Products.
(a) Meat packed in air-tight containers.
(b) Cooked or dried meats.
(c) Intestines and other parts prepared in the form of sausage casings.
(d) Eendered animal fats except in margarine.
(e) Pies, sausages and other prepared or manufactured articles of food containing any meat or
cooked or dried meat other than fat.
Circular No. 1,639, dated 11th August, 1937; Circular No. 1,675, dated
24th March, 1938; Circular No. 1,707, dated 10th June, 1938; Circular No. 1,719,
dated 25th July, 1938; Circular No. 1,727, dated 15th August, 1938; and Circular
No. 1,741, dated 17th October, 1938; authorise the recognition of the Official
Certificates of the following Governments*:—
America, United States of. Italy, Government of.
Argentine, Republic of. Kenya Colony, Government of.
Australia, Commonwealth of. Latvia, Eepublic of.
Bechuanaland Protectorate. Lithuania, Eepublic of.
Belgium, Kingdom of. Madagascar and Dependencies, Government of.
Brazil, United States of. Netherlands, Kingdom of.
Bulgaria, Kingdom of. New Zealand, Dominion of.
Canada, Dominion of. Norway, Kingdom of.
Chili, Eepublic of. Paraguay, Government of.
Czechoslovakia, Eepublic of. Poland, Eepublic of.
Danzig, The Senate of the Free City of. Eoumania, Kingdom of.
Denmark, Kingdom of. Shanghai International Settlement.
Estonia, Eepublic of. South Africa, Union of.
Finland, Eepublic of. South West Africa, Territory of.
France, Eepublic of. Southern Ehodesia, Colony of.
French West Africa, Government of. Sweden, Kingdom of.
German Eeich. Switzerland, Confederation of.
Hong Kong, Government of. Uruguay, Eepublic of.
Hungary, Kingdom of. Yugoslavia, Kingdom of.
Iceland, Kingdom of.

The short period of the year 1938 following the coming into force of the Regulations
does not permit judgment of their efficiency and sufficiency, and a full account and
review of the working of the Regulations must remain over for next year's Report.
These Regulations do not remove a serious defect in the administrative machinery
for the control of imported foods entering the Port of London. Contrary to the view
widely held by those who might be better acquainted with the hierarchy of the Port of
London, the control of imported foodstuffs is not vested in a single Authority, but in
the Port of London Health Authority and five Riparian Authorities, the latter having
obtained, at various times, by Orders made by the Minister of Health, powers to
administer the Imported Food Regulations.
This purely administrative division of control does not tend to promote efficiency,
and it is hoped that some change will take place in the near future.
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations, 1925-1927.
Conversations have been taking place for some time past between Port Medical
Officers of Health, in which Dr. White has taken a leading part, and Officers of the
Ministry of Health, with regard to the control, and eventually the elimination, of
copper contamination of foodstuffs.
Thus a discussion on copper in tomato puree and other tomato concentrates was
held at the Ministry of Health on the 21st January, 1938. It was then decided that
copper in tomato puree was traceable to three sources:—
(a) Copper naturally present in tomatoes;
(b) Copper introduced from sprays and dusting powders;
(c) Copper derived from processing vessels in the manufacture of puree.
* Eeceived up to the 31st December, 1938.