Ciution
and com- mancoment.
Interpreta- tion.
Standards of composition.
First
Schedule.
Marking and labelling.
Second
Schedule.
Offences and penaltica.
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.
(No. 30 of 1960).
FOOD AND Drugs (Composition and Labelling) 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 Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of the Publi Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.
2. In these regulations, save where the context otherwise requires-- "container" includes every kind of box, bottle, tin, carton, package of wrapping enclosing an article or substance, but does not include an outer cover or wrapping superimposed for the purpose of con- signment or delivery:
"permitted colouring matter" means any colouring matter specified in the First Schedule to the Colouring Matter in Food Regulations, 1960 or any combination of such colouring matters;
"sell" includes offer, expose or possess for sale.
3. The standards of composition of the foods and drugs specificl in the First Schedule shall be the standards prescribed in respect thereof in that Schedule.
4. The foods and drugs specified in the Second Schedule shall be marked and labelled in the manner prescribed in that Schedule.
5. (1) Any person who advertises for sale, sells or manufactures for sale any food or drug which does not conform to the relevan requirements as to composition prescribed in the First Schedule or which is not marked and labelled in the manner prescribed in the Second Schedule shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprison ment for three months.
(2) In any proceedings for an offence against paragraph (9) is relation to the publication of an advertisement, it shall be a defens for the defendant to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or arrange for the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.
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FIRST SCHEDULE.
(In this Schedule reference to proportion or percentage means proportion or percentage by weight).
PART 1.
[reg. 3.]
Composition of foods and drugs other than milk and milk products.
1. Drugs and ingredients and component parts of drugs shall conform to the standards specified therefor respectively in the British Pharmacopoeia or British Pharmacopoeia Codex,
2. Margarine shall be any article of food, whether mixed with butter or oot, which resembles butter and is not milk-blended butter. It shall be free fom recidity and shall not contain more than 16% moisture nor more than 10% butter fat.
1. Coffee shall be the seed of Coffea arabica and other species of the puna Coffea and shall contain no foreign substance.
4 Lard shall be the clean fát rendered from the meat of the hog. 1 bill contain not more than 1% of substances other than hog fat unavoidably incorporated with it in the process of rendering, and not more than 1% of water. I shall not contain any foreign substance.
5. Vinegar shall be a liquid derived wholly from alcoholic and acctom fermentations without any intermediate distillation. It shall contain not less ban 4.0 grammes of acetic acid in 100 cubic centimetres of the vinegar, and gall not contain any other foreign substance, except caramel,
6. Malt vinegar shall be vinegar as prescribed in item 5, but it shall be derived wholly from malted barley, with or without addition of cereals, the warch of which has been saccharifled by the diastase of malt
Nothing prescribed in this item or in item 5 shall apply to Chinese palivo vmegar sold as such under the names of Pak T«'o (30) or Hak To'o (M).
7. Honey shall contain not more than 5% of sucrose,
1. Baking powder shall yield not more than 15% of its weight of residual arbon dioxide and not less than 8% of its weight of available carbon dioxide, the weight of residual and available carbon dioxide, respectively, being determined in the following manner-
(0) Residual carbon dioxide--
A sample of 2 grammes of baking powder shall be treated with 25 millilitres of water and evaporated to dryness on a boiling water bath and subsequently treated with a further 25 millilitres of water and evaporated in like manner. The weight of the residual carbon dioxide is the weight evolved when the sample so treated is further treated with cxcess of dilute sulphuric acid at room temperature, the evolution being completed either by boiling or by means of reduced pressure. Ib) Available carbon dioxide-
The weight of available carbon dioxide is the difference between the coud weight of carbon dioxide and the weight of the residual carbon dioxide obtained when the sample is treated in the manner prescribed in paragraph (a), the total weight of carbon dioxide being determined by ascertaining the weight evolved when a similar sample of the baking powder is treated with excess of dilute sulphuric acid at room tempera- ture, the evolution being completed either by boiling for five minutes or by means of reduced pressure.