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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 10, 1939.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 111.

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 amendments of the regulations made under the said Ordinance published as Notification No. 940 in the Gazette of the 6th December, 1935, as amended by Notification No. 923 in the Gazette of the 2nd December, 1938, as follows:-

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Amendments.

1. Subsections (xxvi) and (xxvii) of regulation 1 are rescinded and the following new subsections (xxvi) and (xxvii) are substituted therefor :-

(xxvi) Vinegar is a liquid derived wholly from alcoholic and acetous fermentations without any intermediate distillation. It shall contain not less than 4.0 grammes of acetic acid in 100 cubic centimetres of the vinegar. It shall not contain arsenic in a proportion of more than one hundredth of a grain per gallon. It shall be free from any other foreign substance, except caramel. It shall contain no sulphuric or other mineral acid.

(xxvii) Malt Vinegar shall be vinegar as defined above derived wholly from malted barley, with or without the addition of cereals, the starch of which has been saccharified by the diastase of malt.

2. The following is added at the end of regulation 1 Nothing in the definitions of "Vinegar" or "Malt Vinegar" shall apply to Chinese Native Vinegar sold as such under the names of Pak Ts'o () and Hak Ts'o () provided it is not supplied, sold or exposed for sale under any title or description containing the word "pure" or its equivalent, or as implying that it is "Vinegar" or "Malt Vinegar" as herein- before defined.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

2nd February, 1939.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.