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and handling of meat, and the hygienic condition of premises and stalls on
which meat is stored, sold or exposed for sale. No infringement of these
Regulations was reported.
(b) PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1937-1948. The general effect
of these Regulations is to prohibit
(a) The importation for the purpose of human consumption of
(i) any article of food unfit for that purpose:
(ii) any meat described in the Regulations as prohibited meat.
(b) The importation of any meat or meat product unaccompanied by an
"official certificate".
No infringement of these Regulations was reported.
(C) PUBLIC HEALTH (PRESERVATIVES, ETC. IN FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1925-1953. These
Regulations make it an offence to manufacture for sale or sell any article of
food which contains added preservative or colouring matter except as set out in
the schedules to the Regulations, Any person who exposes or offers any article
of food containing the permitted preservative shall cause the food itself to be
labelled or expose in a conspicuous position a notice to the effect that the
food contains preservative. In two cases it was reported that sausages containing
preservatives were offered for sale without the necessary indication
that they contained preservative. Warning letters were sent to both vendors.
During the year, attention was drawn to the use by certain orange growers
of a fungicide known as Thiourea, which experiments in the United States of
America had shown to be lethal to some animals. Samples of oranges purchased
by the Pood Inspectors from fruit traders showed the presence of this chemical
in two instances. The oranges in question were Spanish in origin. Warning
letters were sent to the vendors and particulars of the cases were repotted to
the Ministry of food.
DEFENCE (SALE OP FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1943. The following Orders relating to
foods were made under these Regulations during the year:-
1. THE FOOD STANDARDS (MARGARINE) ORDER, 1954, came into force on May 16th,
1954. The Order prescribes that margarine shall contain between 760 and 940
international units of vitamin A and between 80 and 100 international units of
vitamin D per ounce. This vitamin A content is roughly equivalent to that of
butter. The new Order applies to all home produced and imported margarine
sold by retail, including margarine sold as such by a caterer but not margarine
used by him in made-up foods or in cooking. It does not apply to sales of
margarine to a caterer.
2. THE MINERAL OIL IN FOOD (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1954, came into operation on
August 8th, and provides that the prohibition in the principal Order relating
to mineral oil in food shall not apply in relation to citrus fruit containing
not more than 0.1 part by weight of mineral oil per 100 parts by weight of
citrus fruit and, consequentially, extends the provisions as respects articles
of food containing mineral oil to allow for the inclusion therein of citrus
fruit containing not more than the permitted quantity of mineral oil.
3. THE FOOD STANDARDS (SOFT DRINKS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1954, extends the
exemption of fruit juice from the provisions of the principal Order to include
undiluted fruit juice, with or without added sugar, and any such juice in
concentrated (or frozen) form.
SECTION 9 (Penalty for sale &c. of unsound food). This Section provides
that a person who sells, or offers, or exposes for sale, or has in his possession
for the purpose of sale or of 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 but unfit for human consumption, shall be guilty of an
offence. Legal proceedings were taken in respect of biscuits infested with