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Nature and extent Actlon Taken
of adulteration
INFORMAL cont
Red Apples (Lebanese) Contained 6 8 p.p.m. Lead Seasonal importation
No action taken.
Buttered Bread Roll Fat consisted of Margarine Vendor warned.
Blackcurrant Drink Deficient to the extent of Formal sample taken
50% of the required amount (See above),
of blackcurrant juice.
THE AUTHORISED OFFICERS (MEAT INSPECTION) REGULATIONS, 1960. These Regulations,
which came into operation on 12th August, 1960, enable councils to authorise
under the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, officers holding the Royal Society of Health
Certificate in Meat Inspection to act as meat inspectors.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933. SECTION 18 (Prohibi tions 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 131 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
Grocer 82
Hardware Store 33
Drug Store 8
Hairdresser 2
Disinfectant Manufacturer 1
Disinfectant Merchant 2
Mill Furnisher . 1
Seed Merchant . 1
Turpentine Bottler 1
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PHARMACY AND MEDICINES ACT, 1941. The provisions of this Act which a local
authority has power to enforce, relate to the prohibition of the publication of
advertisements concerning certain diseases, to the prohibition of the publication
of any advertisement relating to abortion and to the disclosure of
certain information as to the composition of medicines.
THE POISONS LIST ORDER, 1960. This Order adds to the Poisons List certain
substances, set out in paragraph (a) of the First Schedule. Paragraph (b) of
that Schedule also adds certain substances to the Poisons List and effects a
change of nomenclature. The remaining paragraphs of that Schedule re-arrange
the list to take account of recent changes of nomenclature or classification
but contain no change of substance.
The complete list, as so amended, is set out in the Second Schedule.
THE POISONS RULES, 1960. These Rules consolidate with amendments the Rules
specified in Rule 35 (1). The principal amendments are as follows. By
reason of amendments to Rules 5 and 12 the requirements of Rule 12 (3) as to
the form of prescription and of Rule 5 as to labelling are relaxed as respects
certain poisons previously included in the Fourth Schedule (which sets out the
poisons which may be sold by retail only upon prescription) and these poisons
are now set out in a separate part of the Schedule, Part B, which includes also