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Officer.

VI.—TOILET PREPARATIONS,-contd.

Licence or permit.

Fee.

Superintendent, --contd.

Retailer's licence (Form 5).—-

contd.

(e) in the New Territories except New Kowloon

or if held in conjunction with 11 retailer's licence for any other goods to which the Ordinance applies

COUNCIL. CHAMBER,

17th April, 1941.

No. 426.

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T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1935. (ADULTERATED FOOD AND DRUGS).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1935, the Governor in Council makes the following further amendment of the regulations made under the said Ordinance published as Government Notification No. 940 in the Gazette of the 6th December 1935 as amended by Government Notification No. 166 in the Gazette of the 14th February 1941.

Amendment.

Regulation 1 (ii) (a) is deleted and the following is substituted:

(ii) (a) Margarine is any article of food, whether mixed with butter or not, which resembles butter and is not milk-blended butter. It shall be free from rancidity and not contain more than 16% moisture or more than 10% butter fat. It shall contain no preservative except to the extent of 0.15 per cent. by weight of benzoic acid and 0.15 per cent. by weight of sodium benzoate.

Every receptacle containing margarine shall be clearly marked "MARGARINE" in large letters and also with the additional words "containing not more than 0.15 per cent. by weight of benzoic acid and 0.15 per cent. by weight of sodium benzoate and no other preservative" (where the margarine contains such preservatives), and every packet sold retail shall be similarly marked.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

18th April, 1941.

NOTE:The regulation published in the Gazette of the 14th February 1941 as Government Notification No. 166 contained a prohibition against all preservatives in margarine. In order to enable margarine to be stored for lengthy periods where refrigeration is not possible this prohibition has now been removed and two preservatives will now be permitted but their presence must be clearly indicated in all receptacles containing margarine. As soon

as normal times prevail it is the intention to restore this prohibition against preservative in margarine.