THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 2, 1938. 887
No. 923.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1935. (ADULTERATED FOOD AND DRUGS).
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1935, the Governor in Council makes the following further amendment of the regulations made under the said Ordinance published as Notification No. 940 in the Gazette of the 6th December, 1935, as follows:-
Amendments.
1. The following paragraphs rescinded by Notification No. 218 of the Gazette of the 2nd April, 1937, are restored to regulation 1.
(xxvi) Vinegar is a liquid derived wholly from alcoholic and acetous fermentations. It shall contain not less than 4:0 grammes of acetic acid in 100 cubic centimetres of the vinegar. It shall not contain arsenic in amounts exceeding 0.0143%. It shall be free from copper, lead and any other foreign substance, except caramel. It shall contain no sulphuric or other mineral acid.
(xxvii) Malt Vinegar shall be vinegar as defined above, derived wholly from malted barley or wholly from cereals the starch of which has been saccharified by the diastase of malt.
2. The following is added at the end of regulation 1. Nothing in the definitions of "Vinegar" or "Malt Vinegar" shall apply to Chinese Native Vinegar seld as such under the names of Pak Ts'o (H) and Hak Ts'o (G) provided it is not supplied, sold or exposed for sale under any title or description containing the word "pure" or its equivalent, or as implying that it is "Vinegar" or Vinegar as hereinbefore defined.
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COUNCIL CHAMFER,
1st December, 1938.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.