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there is no approved "Official Certificate".
Refining - 927 Bags of sugar sweepings, contaminated with extraneous matter, 139
tons.
PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1937 and 1948.
Circular MF4/49, dated 6th April, 1949 issued by the Ministry of Food, reads
as follows:-
"I am directed by the Minister of Food to state, for the information of the
Authority, that he has caused to be published in the London Gazette of the
5th April, 1949, a notice containing in the Schedule thereto the description
of a label issued by the Government of Italy which has been
recognised as an Official Certificate for the purposes of the Public Health
(imported Food) Regulations, 1937 and 1948".
The notice reads as follows
"The Minister of Food gives notice, in pursuance of the above-named
Regulations, that he hereby recognises the Official Certificate, of which
particulars are given in the Schedule thereto, as showing (a) that the
meat to which it relates or the meat from which the meat product to which
it relates was prepared, ms derived from animals inspected ante and
post mortem and passed in accordance with criteria satisfactory to the
Minister, and (b) that all necessary precautions for prevention of danger
to public health vrere taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of
the meat or meat product.
The certificate being in the form of a label, recognition will apply
only if the label is securely affixed to the meat or to the package containing
the meat or meat product and if the label has not in any other
circumstances or on any other occasion been used as an Official
Certificate.
The label hereby recognised is in substitution for the label having on
it the design reproduced in Part I of the Schedule to the Notice
published in the London Gazette of the 15th July, 193 8 which is hereby
revoked" .
A similar Circular MF13/49 dated 31st August, 1949 was issued by the
Ministry of Food in respect of a label issued by the Government of Hungary and
which has been recognised as an Official Certificate for the purposes of the
above mentioned Regulationso
The label hereby recognised is in substitution for the label having on it
the design reproduced in Part I of the Schedule to the notice published in the
London Gazette of the 6th August, 1937, which is hereby revoked.
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Your Medical Officer referred, in his last Report, to the difficulties that
were being experienced in the supervision of the variety of foodstuffs which are
increasingly entering the Port from countries all over the world.
These difficulties have in no way diminished during the year and on a considerable
number of occasions foodstuffs, particularly canned foods, owing to
inexperience in the packing house and to the use of inappropriate cans made of
tin-plate of too light a gauge and poorly tinned, have had to be condemned.
Many of the products are of very poor quality but are nevertheless welcome
to the housewife distracted by difficulties in finding suitable additions to the
rations for her family,
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