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Nature and extent Action Taken
of adul teration
INFORMAL
Buttered Bread Rolls The fat spread consisted of Formal sample taken
38% butter and 62% margarine - unsatisfactory.
Buttered Bread Rolls The fat spread consisted of Formal sample taken
margarine containing not - unsatisfactory,
more than 10% butter
Sardines in Olive Oil Oil contained a considerable Foreign produce.
proportion of arachis oil. Further samples
obtainable. Letters
sent to Wholesaler
and Retailer.
Ice Cream 10% deficient in fat. Manufacturer
fied. Formal sample
taken- Satisfactory.
Dairy IceCream 2.7% deficient in milk Manufacturer noti-
solids other than fat. fied. Formal sample
taken - Satisfactory.
Plum Pudding Old stock and outside of Warning letter sent
sample was slightly mouldy. to vendor.
Buttermints Contained only 1.8 per cent Formal sample to be
of butter fat. taken.
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 120 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 75
Hardware Store 32
Drug Store 7
Hairdresser 2
Disinfectant Merchant 2
Seed Merchant 1
Turpentine Bottler 1
120
THE POISONS LIST ORDER. 1961, made under Section 17 of this Act, adds certain
substances to the Poisons List, and makes amendments in the entries relating to
phenothiazine and the active principles of the suprarenal gland. In addition,
Paragraph (u) of the First Schedule, while making no change of substance, makes
amendments to take account of recent changes of nomenclature, and makes certain
rearrangements accordingly.
The complete list, as so amended by this Order, is set out in the Second
Schedule. Poisons which appear in the list for the first time, poisons