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INFORMAL Nature and extent of adulteration Action taken
Preserved Pork Contained only 57% of Meat. No action taken
Sausages (No Statutory Standard)
Ice Cream Contained only 6.7% Milk Solids not fat; thus 10.7% deficient of the specified amount Formal sample taken satisfactory.
Pork Sausages Contained only 60% of Meat. No action taken (No Statutory Standard)
Tinned Garden Peas List of Ingredients incorrect. Formal sample taken satisfactory.
COPPER IN FOODS Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Circular
FSH 13/58 This Circular, dated 20th August, 1958, states that "the Minister
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Minister of Health, have considered
the revised Report of the Food Standards Committee on Copper, published in
February, 1956, and the representations subsequently received from the
interests concerned. They accept the view of the Committee that the consumer
will be adequately protected if limits are observed for the copper content of
foods which are consistent with good commercial practice and that, in the
absence of any new developments, it is unnecessary to give statutory effect to
the recommended limits They do not, therefore, propose to make any regulations
under the Food and Drugs Acts prescribing these limits the provisions
relating to copper in the Food Standards (Edible Gelatin) Order, 1951 and the
Food Standards (Tomato Ketchup) (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 will, however,
be retained.
In the light of recommendations made on the revised Report, the Committee
have made some changes in the special limits recommended for certain foods
The limits now recommended by the Committee are set out in the appendix to
this circular, "
The Slaughterhouses Act, 1958
This Act received Royal Assent on the 1st August, 1958 and came into
operation forthwith The Act amends certain of the provisions of the Food and
Drugs Act, 1955, relating to slaughterhouses and knackers yards, and it also
amends the Slaughter of Animals Acts, 1933 to 1954, and Section 151(1) of the
Factories Act, 1937.
Only Sections 7 to 15 and the Second Schedule apply to London Section
14 makes special provisions relating to London
The Slaughter of Animals Act, 1958
This is a consolidating Act which received Royal Assent on the 18th
December. 1958 The Act makes it an offence for animals to be slaughtered by
any person not licensed by a local authority.
Power is given to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to make
regulations to secure humane conditions of slaughter in slaughterhouses and for
inspections by local authority officers and penalties are prescribed for
offences against the Act,
Metropolitan Borough Councils are local authorities for the purposes of
the application of the Act.
The following Regulations were made during the year
(1) The Slaughter of Pigs (Anaesthesia) Regulations, 1958. Made under subsection
(1) of section one of the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, section two
of the Slaughter of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1954 and section eight of the
Slaughterhouses Act, 1958 These regulations permit the use of a process of
anaesthesia by carbon dioxide gas in connection with the slaughtering of pigs
under safeguards against the infliction of unnecessary suffering.