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THE POISONS RULES, 1958, Made in pursuance of section 23 of the Pharmacy
and Poisons Act, 1933. The principal amendments made by these Rules are as
follows. Under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 and the Poisons Rules,
1952, as amended, the container in which a poison is sold is required to be
labelled with the name of the poison, and for this purpose names given in the
British Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmaceutical Codex or the National
Formulary are permissible. Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to these Rules places
the British Veterinary Codex in the same position in this respect as those
works, and recognises the change of name of the National Formulary to the
British National Formulary. Paragraph 3 of the Schedule places restrictions
upon the sale of monofluoroacetic acid and its salts, similar to the restrictions
already placed upon the sale of strychnine by Rule 16 of the Rules of
1952 as amended, and makes provision for its sale to certain persons for use as
a rodenticide on production of a prescribed certificate. The remaining
paragraphs of the Schedule impose appropriate restrictions and requirements
regarding certain substances now added to the Poisons List by the Poisons List
Order, 1958 (S.I. 1958/1015), and make amendments necessitated by the changes
of nomenclature in the case of certain poisons recognised by that Order. In
particular, the list of phosphorous compounds which is set out in Rule 14 of,
and the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Schedules to, the Rules
of 1952 as amended has been revised: certain relaxations from the general
requirements are made in the case of formic acid now added to Part II of the
Poisons List (paragraphs 5 and 6) and in the case of fluoroacetamide and
fluoroacetanilide, also now added to Part II of the Poisons List, restrictions
are imposed by paragraphs 4(e), 8(b), 9(a), 10 and 12, and a relaxation is
given by paragraph 6(a). Paragraph 4 adds many of the substances newly
added to the Poisons List to the list of poisons included in the First
Schedule to the Rules of 1952, being a list of poisons to which special
restrictions apply.
The following is a summary of the work carried out under the Food and
Drugs Act, 1955'-
Inspections
Registered Pood Premises 2,736
Other Pood Premises 1,831
Stalls 619
Markets 405
Food 391
Dairies and Milk Distributors' Premises 470
Investigations
Food complaints 24
Food Poisoning cases 57
Sampling
Formal samples 415
Graded Milks 586
Ice Cream (for bacteriological examination) 95
Informal samples 259
Notices Served
All types of Food Premises 153