Citation
and com- mencecal
Interpreta tion.
Restrictions
in relation
to the sale,
clc. of food
containing #dded
preservative. First
Schedule.
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.
(No. 30 of 1960),
PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD REGULATIONS, 1960.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance. 1960, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations--
1. These regulations may be cited as the Preservatives in Food Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.
2. (1) In these regulations, save where the context otherwise requires
"benzoic acid" includes benzoates;
"importer" includes any person who, whether as owner, consignes, agent or broker, is in possession of or entitled to the custody or control of any article of food brought from a place outside the Colony, and the word "import" shall be construed accordingly; "preservative" means any substance which is capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting the process of fermentation, acidification of other decomposition of food, or of masking any of the evidence of putrefaction, but does not include common salt (sodium chloridek saltpetre (sodium or potassium nitrate), sugars, lactic acid, acetic acid or vinegar, glycerine, alcohol or potable spirits, herbs. hop extract, spices and essential oils used for flavouring purposes or any substance added to food by the process of curing known as smoking:
"sulphur dioxide" includes sulphites.
(2) For the purposes of these regulations-
(a) percentages shall be calculated by weight; and
(b) sulphites shall be calculated as sulphur dioxide ($0,) and ||
benzoates as benzoic acid (C,H,COOH).
3.
(1) No person shall import, manufacture for sale or sell any article of food which contains any added preservative:
Provided that-
(2) any article of food specified in the First Schedule may contin preservative of the nature and in the proportion specified in respect thereof in that Schedule:
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(b) where an article of food specified in the First Schedule, other- wise than in ilem 4 thereof, is used in the preparation of any other article of food, the latter article may contain any preservative necessarily introduced by the use of the former article, but the total proportion of any one preservative contained in any article of food specified in that Schedule shall not exceed the proportion therein specified:
(c) the provisions of this regulation shall not apply so as to prohibit the presence of sulphur dioxide in any article of food, other than meat, if it is shown either-
(i) that the article, not being an article specified in the First Schedule, is intended to be used in the preparation of an article which is so specified; or
(ii) that the article, being itself an article so specified, other than fruit or fruit pulp, is intended to be so treated before it is sold or exposed for sale by retail as to comply with the provisions of the said Schedule with respect to the proportion of sulphur dioxide contained therein;
(d) the provisions of this regulation shall not apply-
(i) so as to prohibit the presence in bacon, ham and cooked pickled meat of any added sodium or potassium nitrite;
(ii) so as to prohibit the presence in any article of food of sodium or potassium nitrite introduced in the preparation of such article by the use of any bacon, ham or cooked pickled meat containing sodium or potassium nitrite.
(2) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to any
of the articles of food mentioned in paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule Second which contain any preservative specified in the First Schedule as Schedule. termissible in the case of such article, that is to say-
(a) a person who exposes or offers any such article for sale by retail shall, at the time when it is so exposed or offered, either cause the article to be labelled in accordance with the rules set out in the said Second Schedule or cause a notice to the effect that the article contains preservative to be exhibited in a conspicuous place so as to be easily readable by a customer; and
(b) a person who sells any such article shall cause it to be Jabelled in accordance with the said rules at the time when it is delivered to any purchaser, agent or broker: Provided that-
( neither the requirement mentioned in paragraph (2) nor that mentioned in paragraph (b) shall apply where the article is exposed or offered for sale by retail, or delivered to a