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(c) impose restrictions on claims that any bread, biscuits, rusks or cereal
breakfast foods are starch rediided or cah aid slimming, and prohibit
claims that any of those foods have specific weight reducing properties
(reg. 23);
(d) re-enact with amendments the Flour (Composition) Regulations, 1956 ((1956)
54 L.G.R.322), prescribing requirements as to the composition of flour,
subject to certain exemptions (regs. 4, 24 and Sch, 1);
(e) impose restrictions on prosecutions for the sale or importation of flour
which does not comply with certain requirements as to composition
(regs. 25 and 26);
(f) prescribe requirements as to the composition, and as to the labelling
and advertising, of wheatmeal or brown flour and wholemeal (regs.
28 and 29);
(g) prohibit the sale or importation of flour or bread containing any added
colouring matter, save that flour and bread other than white bread or
soda bread may contain caramel (regs. 30 (1) and (4) and 11):
(h) prohibit the sale or importation of -
(i) flour (other than wholemeal) containing any bleaching agent or
improving agent other than one specified in the 'regulation;
(ii) wholemeal containing any bleaching agent or improving agent;
(iii) flour in relation to which any bleaching agent or improving agent
has been used in contravention of the regulations (reg. 30 (2),
(3) and (4));
(j) prohibit the sale or advertising for sale, with a view to its use in the
preparation of flour or of bread, of any bleaching agent or improving
agent which is not permitted by the regulations, and impose requirements
as to thte labelling of permitted bleaching agents and improving agents
(reg. 31 and Sch. 2);
(k) provide that where bread or flour is certified by a public analyst as
containing any colouring matter not permitted by the regulations or where
flour is so certified as containing any bleaching agent or improving
agent otherwise than in accordance with the regulations, that bread or
flour may be treated for the purposes of s. 9 of the Food and Drugs Act,
1955, as being unfit for human consumption (reg. 32V
(1) provide for the production of certain records by manufacturers of flour
(reg. 33);
(m) amend the Arsenic in Pood Regulations, 1959, as amended (1959) 57 L G R
235 (1960) 58 L.G.R 925), by providing that the maximum amount of
arsenic permitted in reduced iron intended for use in the preparation of
flour shall be 5 0 parts per million (reg, 27);
(D) do not apply, except insofar as they relate to advertisements other
than labels or wrappers, to bread or flour intended for export or for
consumption by Her Majesty's forces or by a visiting force, not to bread
intended for manufacturing purposes (reg, 3').
The Ice-Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963,
made jointly by the Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Fo6d and the
Minister of Health came into operation on thp 18th June, 1963 They amend
the Ice-Cream (Heat Treatment, etc.) Regulations, 1959 (1959) 57 L G R 192)
to allow the addition of sugar to sterilized or pasteurized mixtures used in
the manufacture of ice-cream.
The Soft Drinks Regulations, 1963 made jointly by the Minister of
Agriculture. Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Health came into
operation on the 20th July, 1963 The principal changes embodied in the
Regulations are:-