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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 31, 1941.

use of the former article, but the total proportion of any one preservative contained in any article of food specified in that Part of the Schedule shall not exceed the proportion therein specified.

(iii) 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-

(a) that the article not being an article specified in Part I' of the said Schedule is intended to be used in the preparation of an article which is so specified, or

(b) 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 Schedule as regards the proportion of sulphur dioxide contained.

(iv) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply

(u) so as to prohibit the presence in bacon, ham and cooked pickled meat of any added sodium or potassium nitrite.

(b) 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 which contains any preservative specified in Part I of the First Schedule as permissible 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

(6) A person who sells any such article shall cause it to be labelled in accordance with the said rules at the time when it is delivered to any purchaser, agent or broker:

Provided that—

(1) Neither the requirement mentioned in paragraph (a) nor that mentioned in paragraph (b) shall apply where the article is exposed or offered for sale by retail or delivered to a customer in a hotel, restaurant or other such place for consumption on the premises; and

(ii) The requirement mentioned in paragraph (b) 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 (a) is there exhibited as provided in that paragraph.

(3) No person shall sell cream which contains any thickening substance.

(4) 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 proportions exceeding two hundred parts per million calculated as sodium nitrite.