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7½ Per cent, milk fat and no other fat (save as may be introduced by
the use as an ingredient of any egg, any flavouring substance or
any emulsifying or stabilising agent) and not less than 2 per cent,
milk solids other than fat.
(2) Milk Ice or Milk Ice containing any fruit, fruit pulp or fruit puree
shall contain not less than 2½ per cent, milk fat and no other fat
(save as may be introduced by the use as an ingredient of any egg,
any flavouring substance or any emulsifying or stabilising agent) and
not less than 7 per cent, milk solids other than fat
(3) "Parev" (kosher) ice shall contain not less than 10 per cent fat and
no milk fat or other derivative of milk.
(ii) No ice-cream of any description shall contain any artificial sweetener
(c) The Condensed Milk Regulations, 1959. These Regulations, made under
Sections 4 and 7, and which came into operation in June, substantially re-enact
in a consolidated and revised form the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations,
1923, as subsequently amended Certain new provisions have been
introduced, the principal ones being:-
(i) to provide for the sale of condensed partly skimmed (half cream) milk
labelled "should not be used for babies except under medical advice"-
(ii) to define half cream milk as meaning milk which contains not less
than 10.8 per cent of milk solids including not less than 1.8 per
cent of milk fat;
(iii) to prescribe minimum percentages of milk fat and milk solids
including fat for condensed partly skimmed (half cream) milk
(d) The Arsenic in Food Regulations, 1959. These Regulations, which came
into operation in August, provide that, subject to certain exceptions, it shall
be an offence to sell, consign or deliver, or import into England or Wales,
any food which contains more than 1.0 part per million of arsenic Lower
limits are specified for beverages, some soft fruit concentrates and ice-cream
and higher limits are specified for some foods which, generally, are either
essences or ancillary foods
(e) The Fluorine in Food Regulations, 1959. These Regulations, made in
December and operative from the 14th March, 1960. replace the Fluorine in Pood
Order, 1947, and prescribe reduced maximum limits for the fluorine content
of acidic phosphates used for food purposes and of foods containing acidic
phosphates
SECTION 6 (False labelling or advertisement of food or drugs), A person who
gives with any food or drug sold by him, or displays with any food or drug
exposed by him for sale, a label, whether attached to or printed on the wrapper
or container or not, which
(a) falsely describes the food or drug, or
(b) is calculated to mislead as to its nature, substance or quality,
is guilty of an offence unless he proves that he did not know, and could not
with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the label was of such a
character as aforesaid. No action was taken under this section.
SECTION 7 (Regulations as to labelling and description of food). Under this
Section the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of
Health, acting jointly, made the Labelling of Food (Amendment) Regulations,
1959, which were operative from April 27th, 1959 They prohibit the labelling,