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The Order also specifies special conditions as to labelling of certain
foods and intoxicating liquors, The Labelling of Food (Amendment) Order of
1953 operates from the 1st January, 1954 and inter alia permits Flour and
National Brown Flour to be sold without a declaration of ingredients, insofar
as they comply as regards composition with the requirements of the Flour
Order, 1953: it also removes soft drinks, saccharin tablets and sweetening
tablets from the list of foods the ingredients of which are to be specified on
labels.
One case of an offence against the Labelling of Food Order, 1953 came to
the notice of the department where tea packed by a company of tea packers was
incorrectly labelled insofar as the label gave the private residential
address of the trader and not his business address. On investigation the
opinion was formed that there was no intention deliberately to mislead, and in
the circumstances warning letters were sent both to the tea packers and to the
trader. The packers took immediate steps to replace the offending label by
one satisfying the requirements of the Order.
(i) FLOUR ORDER, 1953, This Order, made under the Defence (General) Regulations,
1939, came into operation on 30th August, 1953, and revoked and replaced
the Flour Order, 1952. It abolishes the controls on production, distribution,
packing, use and price of flour; it "also requires the addition of creta
praeparata to all flour unless it is a flour which contains the whole product
of the milling of wheat and no additions whatsoever. The Order provides for
the restoration of certain specified nutrients to be made to all flours of an
extraction rate of less than 80 per cent and decrees that containers containing
National Flour or National Brown Flour for sale otherwise than by retail
must be marked or labelled to show their contents.
(j) BREAD ORDER, 1953 This Order, made under the Defence (General) Regulations,
1939, came into force on 30th August, 1953, and defines the composition
of National bread and National brown bread: price control is restricted to
the retail sale of National bread or National brown bread in loaves weighing
14 ounces or a multiple of 14 ounces, but price-controlled bread must be
available when uncontrolled bread is sold,
SECTION 9. (Penalty for sale &c. of unsound food) This Section provides
that a person who sells, offers, exposes for sale, or has in his possession
for the purpose of sale or for preparation for sale, or deposits with or consigns
to, any person for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale, any
food intended for human consumption, shall be guilty of an offence. No
legal proceedings were taken under this Section.