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(a) FOOD STANDARDS (SUET) ORDER, 1952 This Order, operative from 28th
December, 1952, revoked the Pood Standards (Shredded Suet) Order, 1944. and
prescribed that block suet "shall consist of rendered beef suet, shall be free
from fibrous tissue and shall contain not less than 99 per cent by weight of
beef fat": and that shredded suet "shall consist of rendered beef suet with
farinaceous material and shall be free from fibrous tissue, shall be shredded,
flaked or otherwise comminuted and shall contain not less than 83 per cent by
weight of beef fat",
(b) OFFALS IN MEAT PRODUCTS ORDER 1953 This Order prohibits the use of
certain offals in the composition or preparation of a meat product which is
not and has not been canned and which necessitates further cooking before
being used for human consumption.
(c) MEAT PRODUCTS (NO. 3) ORDER, 1952 This Order, operative from 1st
January, 1953 prescribed the minimum meat content for -
Uncooked pork sausages and
sausage meat, including
pork slicing sausage
65 per cent (of which not
less than 80 per cent shall
be pork)
Uncooked beef sausages and
sausage meat, including
beef slicing sausage
50 per cent.
The Canned Corned Meat (Prices) Order 1953; however, revoked the Meat
Products (No. 3) Order, 1952, as from 1st March with the result that from that
date there was no official standard for meat content of sausages. Nevertheless
it is felt that sausages and sausage meat should contain not less meat
than that prescribed in the original Order, and legal proceedings were taken
in four cases in which the Public Analyst reported that the meat content was
lower than that standard.
(d) FOOD STANDARDS (PRESERVES) ORDER, 1953. AND FOOD STANDARDS (PRESERVES)
(AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1953 The Food Standards (Preserves) Order, 1953 provided
revised standards for jam and marmalade including ginger marmalade, but
deferred the operation of the order as respects wholesale sales until the 1st
January, 1954, and the retail sales until the 1st May, 1954. The amending
Order advanced the operative date as regards certain jams and all jams packed
in hermetically sealed containers to the 1st September, 1953. It also prescribed
revised standards for fig and lemon jam and rhubarb and ginger jam.
(e) FOOD STANDARDS (SACCHARIN TABLETS) ORDER 1953 Operative from the 1st
September, this Order revised the standard for saccharin tablets and applied
the standard to all sweetening tablets containing saccharin.
(f) ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS IN FOOD ORDER, 1953 This Order, operative from
1st September, 1953 prohibits the use of artificial sweeteners, other than
saccharin, in the composition or preparation of any food sold or intended for
sale for human consumption,
(g) CREAM AND USE OF MILK (REVOCATION) ORDER, 1953 This Order, operative
from 1st April, 1953. removed control over the manufacture and sale of cream
and also removed the prohibition on the use of liquid milk in the manufacture
of certain foods,
(h) LABELLING OF FOOD ORDER, 1953 Inter alia this Order prohibits with
certain exceptions the retail sale of pre-packed food unless it bears
(a) a label clearly indicating the name and address of either the packer
or labeller; or
(b) if the food is packed or labelled on behalf of another person carrying
on a business in the United Kingdom, his name and address; or
(c) a registered trade mark.