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(2) SECTIONS 4 and 7. The Antioxidant in Food Regulations, 1958. These
Regulations provide for the sale and importation of foods which contain
propyl, octyl and dodecyl gallates and butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated
hydroxytoluene within prescribed limits. They require antioxidants and
certain specified foods containing antioxidant when sold otherwise than by
retail to be labelled in a prescribed manner; and they provide that where a
food is certified by a public analyst to contain antioxidant not permitted
by the regulations that food may be treated for the purposes of Section 9
of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, as being unfit for human consumption.
The articles of food which may contain added antioxidant, and the
description and proportion of antioxidant which may be added in each case,
are set out in the First Schedule to the Regulations.
The Regulations also provide that where food contains milk fat by
reason of the addition as an added ingredient, of any dairy product, that
food may as respects its milk-fat content, contain antioxidant of the
description and in the proportions permitted in relation to an amount of
anhydrous fat equal to that milk fat.
Each food and drugs authority shall enforce and execute the Regulations
in their area; provided that each port health authority shall
enforce and execute in their district the provisions of Regulation 4
insofar as they relate to importation.
(3) SECTION 7. (The Labelling of Food (Amendment) Regulations, 1958).
These amending Regulations, which apply in England and Wales only, revoke
Article 8(d) of the Labelling of Food Order, 1953 (which Order has effect
in England and Wales as if contained in Regulations under section 7 of the
Food and Drugs Act, 1955) thereby removing the requirement that no liquor
shall be labelled as a cocktail or as a mixture containing spirits unless
it contains not less than 40 per cent. proof spirit.
SECTION 8 (Punishment for sale, etc. of food unfit for human consumption).
This section provides that any person who sells or offers or exposes for sale
or has in his possession for the purpose of sale any food intended for, but
unfit for, human consumption, shall be guilty of an offence. No action was
necessary under this section during 1958.
SECTION 9 (Examination and seizure of suspected food). An authorised
officer of a council may at all reasonable times examine any food intended for
human consumption which has been sold, or is offered or exposed for sale, or is
in possession of, or has been deposited with or consigned to, any person for
the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and, if it appears to him to
be unfit for human consumption may seize it and remove it in order to have it
dealt with b.v a iustice of the Deace.