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ADULTERATION. The following are details of the 9 adulterated or unsatisfactory
samples:-
Nature and extent
FORMAL of adulteration Action t en
Rum Contained foreign matter. Vendor warned.
Minced Chicken Meat content 63%. Manufacturer warned,
in Jelly
Shredded Suet 6% fat deficiency. No action taken.
Beef Sausages Meat content 44%. No action taken
Minced Meat Contained 1,000 p p.m. Sulphur Manufacturer warned
Dioxide.
Sterilised milk 13.3% milk fat deficiency Vendor warned
INFORMAL
Butter Contained 0.3% excess water. Formal sample taken -
satisfactory.
Minced Meat Contained 910 p.p.m Sulphur Formal sample taken.
Dioxide.
"Rivella" The List of Ingredients included Manufacturer notified.
"Lacto Serum" 40%, whereas the
ordinary name for this substance
viz. "Cheese Whey", should be
used.
THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (PREVENTION OF CRUELTY) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS,
1959 These Regulations came into operation on September 5th 1959, and amend
the Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty) Regulations, 1958 by adding
after paragraph (3) of regulation 2 thereof the following:
"(4) In the application of these regulations to the administrative county
of London, for the reference to Part IV of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, where
it occurs in the definitions of 'occupier' and "slaughterhouse licence' in
paragraph (1) of this regulation and in regulation 37 hereof there shall be
substituted a reference to sections one hundred and forty-four and one hundred
and forty-five of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936."
This technical amendment to the principal regulations provides that those
regulations shall apply in London in the same way as elsewhere in England
and Wales.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE LICENCES (FORMS AND RECORDS) REGULATIONS, 1959 These
regulations made on October 29th, 1959 under Section 1(5) of the Slaughterhouses
Act, 1958, are operative from the 1st January, 1960 They prescribe the form
of application for the grant or renewal of a slaughterhouse licence The form
of the licence is also prescribed and local authorities, who are responsible
for licensing, are required to maintain records of licences granted by them.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933 SECTION 18 (Prohibitions and Regulations
with respect to sale of poisons) enacts that except in the case of an
authorised seller of poisons selling from premises duly registered under
Part I of the Act, no person shall sell any poison included in Part II of the
Poisons List, unless his name is entered in a local authority's list of
sellers of such poisons. The names of 138 persons and the addresses of
their business premises were entered in the authority's register for the
sale of Part II poisons at the end of the year. The main business of
these sellers was:-