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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS.
The Board of Agriculture in excerci6e of the powers
conferred on them by Section 4 of the "Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1899 " have made the following regulations:—
1. "Where a sample of milk (not being milk sold
as skimmed, or separated, or condensed milk) contains less
than 3 per cent. of milk-fat, it shall bo presumed for
the purpose of the "Sale of Food and Drugs Acts,
1875 to 1899," until the contrary is proved, that the
milk is not genuine, by reason of the abstraction therefrom
of milk-fat or the addition thereto of water.
2. "Where a sample of milk (not being sold as
skimmed, or separated, or condensed milk) contains not
less than 8.5 per cent. of milk solids other than milk-fat,
it shall be presumed for the purposes of the "Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899," until the contrary
is proved, that the milk is rot genuine, by reason of
the abstraction therefrom of milk solids other than milkfat,
or the addition thereto of water.
3. "Where a sample of skimmed or separated
milk (not being condensed milk) contains less than 9 per
cent. of milk-solids, it shall be presumed for the purposes
of the "Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899,"
until the contrary is proved that the milk is not genuine,
by reason of the abstraction therefrom of milk solids
other than milk-fat, or the addition thereto of water,"
4. "These regulations shall extend to Great
Britain."