1960-HKRS30-8-50_Part04 — Page 53

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Labelling

and marking. etc. of preservative,

Second Schedule.

Regulations not to apply for re-export,

to food, etc.

Preservativo not to be added to Trdik.

Onus of proat,

customer in a hotel, restaurant or other such place, for consumption on the premises; and

(ii) the requirement mentioned in paragraph (8) shall not apply where the article is sold by retail and delivered to the purchaser at the vendor's premises or stall if such a notice as is mentioned in paragraph (0) is there exhibited as provided in that paragraph.

(3) No person shall import, manufacture for sale or sell any cooked pickled meat intended for human consumption, other than bacon and ham, which contains sodium or potassium nitrite in propor tions exceeding two hundred parts per million calculated as sodium nitrite.

4. (1) No person shall sell any article which is recommended in any mark or label placed thereon, or on its receptacle or container, for use as a preservative of any article of food or which is described or referred to in any such mark or label in terms likely to lead to its being so used-

(a) if such use would be contrary to these regulations; or

(6) if it is not labelled in accordance with the rules set out in the

Second Schedule.

(2) No person shall, on or in connexion with the sale of any article or in any advertisement, circular or potice relating thereto, recommend it for use as a preservative of any article of food, or describe or refer to it in terms likely to lead to its being so used, if such use would be contrary to these regulations.

5. The provisions of these regulations which prohibit any preservative in articles of food and which require the labelling of certain articles of food and of articles sold as preservatives shall not apply in the case of any article which has been imported into the Colony for the purpose of re-export.

6. No person shall add any preservative whatsoever to milk.

7. Where in any proceedings under these regulations the fact that any article has been dealt with contrary to the regulations has beco proved, then if the defendant desires to rely upon the exceptions or provisions contained in these regulations with reference to such article being sold for consumption on the premises or being intended for se export, it shall be incumbent upon him to prove that the article was so sold or was intended for re-export.

8.

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regula- Offences and tion 3, 4 or 6 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on penalites. summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for three months.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

[reg 3(1).)

Articles of food which may contain preservative and nature and proportion of preservativé in each case,

The articles of food specified in the second column of the following table may contain the preservative specified in the third columa in proportions not exceeding the number of parts (estimated by weight) per million specified in the

farth column-

frem,

Food.

1. Sausages and sausage meat containing raw

meat, cereals and condiments

Fruit and fruit pulp (not dried) for conversion into jam or crystallized glace or cured fruit as defined in items 6 and 7--

(a) Cherrics

(2) Strawberries and raspberries (4) Other fruit

3. Dried Fruit--

Preservative.

Parts per million.

Sulphur Dioxide

450

do

3,000

រឿង

2,000

DECODERNE

do

1,500

SOAL PIANOPODOROVANTARAN

(a) Apricots, peaches, nectarines, apples and

pears

(6) Raisins and sultanas

4. Dofermented grape juice and non-alcoholic wine made from such grape juice if labelled in accordance with the rules contained in the Second Schedule to these regulations ----

9 Other non-alcoholic wines, cordials and fruit juices, awoctoned or unsweetened, intended to ba consumed in a diluted fora

2,000

do

750

Benzoic Acid

6. Jam including marmalade and fruit jelly

prepared in the way in which jam is prepared) Sulphur Dioxide 1. Crystallized glace or cured fruit fincluding

candied pecl)

R. Fruit and fruit pulp not otherwise specified

in this Schedule

9. Sugar (including solid glucose) and cane

sycupa

IL Cornflour (maize starch) and other prepared

surches

2,000

Either Sulphur

Dioxide

350

or Benzoic Acid

600

40

100

350

70

100

P

do

do

da

do

1

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