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the number of the establishment and. is in addition to the one recognised for
sausage casings as notified in the Ministry of Health Circular 4/47, dated
22nd. January, 1947.
PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1937 and 1948
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY - OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE
Circular MF®20/50 dated 15th November, 1950 issued by the Ministry of Food
directs that the Minister has caused to be published in the London Gazette, a
Notice containing in the Schedule thereto a description of a stamp issued by
the Federal Republic of Germany, which has been recognised as an Official
Certificate for the purposes of the above-named Regulations.
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 hereto as showing (a) that the meat
from which the meat product to which the Certificate relates was prepared,
was derived from animals inspected ante and post mortem in accordance
with criteria satisfactory to the Minister, and (b) that all necessary
precautions for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in
the preparing and packing of the meat product®
The Certificate being in the form of a label or stamp, recognition
will apply only if the label is securely fixed to, or the stamp is clearly
impressed on, the package containing the meat product and the label or
stamp has not in any other circumstances or on any other occasion been
used as an Official Certificate.
The label or stamp hereby recognised is in substitution for the label
or stamp reproduced in Section II of the Schedule to the Notice published
in the London Gazette of the 17th October, 1938, which Section is hereby
revoked."
The Certificate is for meat products only and is completed by the insertion
of the number of the establishment.
THE FOOD AND DRUGS (WHALEMEAT) REGULATIONS 1949.
Circular MF. l/50 from the Ministry of Food, dated 31st January, 1950, 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 20th January, 1950, a Notice containing in the Schedule thereto the
description of a label issued by the Government of Iceland, which he has
recognised as a Veterinary Certificate for the purposes of the Food and
Drugs (Whalemeat) Regulations, 1949".
The notice reads as follows s-
"The Minister of Food gives notice,, in pursuance of the above-named
Regulations» that he hereby recognises the Veterinary Certificate, of -which
particulars are given in the Schedule thereto, as certifying (a) that the
Whalemeat to which it relates or the whalemeat from which the whalemeat
product to which it relates was prepared, was derived from whales inspected
post-mortem and passed as fit for human consumption in accordance with
criteria satisfactory to the Minister and (b) that all necessary
precautions for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in the
preparation, classification, packing, marking, storing and transporting of
the whalemeat or whalemeat product in accordance with conditions satisfactory
to the Minister".
FOOD AND DRUGS (WIALEMEAT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1950.
Circular MF 2/50 of the Ministry of Food, dated 7th February, 1950, calls
attention to an amendment in the principal regulations of 1949.
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