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Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

The former Adulterated Food and Drugs Regulations prescribe the composition of a number of articles of food and drugs and the manner in which certain articles thereof shall be labelled for sale, The purpose of these regula tions is to revise, and to simplify the form of, the Adulterated Food and Drug Regulations. The provision as to standards of composition and as to labeli have been inserted in schedules. Certain alterations have been made to the ki of foods and drugs in respect of which standards are prescribed, and the form of certificate of analysis has been omitted since it is now provided for in the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960,

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A detailed Comparative Table is annexed to this Note.

COMPARATIVE TABLE.

Rermarks.

Curresponding

Regulation.

existing

regulation.

1

B

Citation and commencement.

New. Interpretation.

3

1

To prescribe standards of composition.

and

and

First Schedulc

Schedule

PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 30 of 1960).

FOOD ADULTERATION (METALLIC CONTAMINATION) REGULATIONS, 1960.

la 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-

and co- mencement.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Food Adulteration Citation (Metallic Contamination) Regulations. 1960, and shall come into opera- tion on the day appointed for the commencement of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.

1. In these regulations, the word "metal" includes chemical Interpreta- compounds of the metal.

Lion.

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and

Second Schedule

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First Schedule

Schedule

New. To prescribe marking and labelling.

Penaltics. The fine of $1,000 is increased to a for of $2,000 and three months imprisonment.

3 Any person who sells or offers, exposes, possesses or manufac- Prohibition

of sale, etc. unres for sale any food containing-

of food

metals. First Schedule,

(e) any metal specified in the First Schedule in greater concentra- containing

tion than is therein specified; or

(6) any metal specified in the Second Schedule,

Second Schedule.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction

The following items are omilled-

Aerated waters

Edible oils and fats

Ginger

Preserved ginger

Buffalo milk

Mustard

Black, white and ground mixed pepper Tea

Sterilized milk and cream.

The following new items are included-

Honey

Baking powder

Ice cream.

Second Schedule Regulations 3, 4 As to labelling of margarine and various kinds of silk

and 5 and part

of item (3) of

the Schedule.

(Secretariat GRI/3231/60)

to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Maximum permitted concentration of metals in food.

Arsenic (calculated in each case as arsenious oxide, AS,0,–—–

In solids 1.4 parts per million. In liquids .14 part per million.

Lead (calculated as lead, Pb)

In solids 6 parts per million.

In liquids 1 part per million.

To (calculated as tin, Sn)~

230 parts per million in any food or drink.

[reg. 3(2).]