1987 Ed.] Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) [CAP. 132 Regulations
6. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may-
(a) where the offence was committed in respect of drugs, be brought in the name of the Director of Medical and Health Services;
(b) where the offence was committed in the Urban Council area in respect of food, be brought in the name of the Urban Council; or
(c) where the offence was committed in the Regional Council area in respect of food, be brought in the name of the Regional Council.
7. Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as exempting any person from compliance with any other provisions of the Ordinance which relate to the labelling of food.
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FIRST SCHEDULE
(In this Schedule reference to proportion or percentage means proportion or percentage by weight)
PART I
[reg. 3.]
COMPOSITION OF FOODS AND DRUGS OTHER THAN MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS
1. Drugs and ingredients and component parts of drugs shall conform to the standards specified therefor respectively in the British Pharmacopoeia or British Pharmacopoeia Codex.
2. Margarine shall be 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 shall contain neither more than 16% moisture nor more than 10% butter fat.
3. Coffee shall be the seed of Coffea arabica and other species of the genus Coffea and shall contain no foreign substances.
4. Lard shall be the clean fat rendered from the meat of the hog. It shall contain not more than 1% of substances other than hog fat unavoidably incorporated with it in the process of rendering, and not more than 1% of water. It shall not contain any foreign substance.
5. Vinegar shall be 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, and shall not contain any other foreign substance, except caramel.
6. Malt vinegar shall be vinegar as prescribed in item 5, but it shall be derived wholly from malted barley, with or without addition of cereals, the starch of which has been saccharified by the diastase of malt. Nothing prescribed in this item or in item 5 shall apply to Chinese native vinegar sold as such under the names of Chit Ts'o (滋错), Pak Ts'o (白错) or Hak Ts'o (黑错).
7. Honey shall contain not more than 5% of sucrose.
8. Baking powder shall yield not more than 1.5% of its weight of residual carbon dioxide and not less than 8% of its weight of available carbon dioxide, the weight of residual and available carbon dioxide, respectively, being determined in the following manner--
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[Subsidiary]
Name in which proceedings may be brought. L.N. 30/67. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
INTI969
Compliance with other labelling requirements. L.N. 222/85.
L.N. 45/75.
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1987 Ed.] Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) [CAP. 132 Regulations
6. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enact- ment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may-
(a) where the offence was committed in respect of drugs, be brought in the name of the Director of Medical and Health Services;
(b) where the offence was committed in the Urban Council area in respect of food, be brought in the name of the Urban Council; or
(c) where the offence was committed in the Regional Council area in respect of food, be brought in the name of the Regional Council.
7.
Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as exempt- ing any person from compliance with any other provisions of the Ordinance which relate to the labelling of food.
ང.
FIRST SCHEDULE
(In this Schedule reference to proportion or percentage means proportion or percentage by weight)
PART I
[reg. 3.]
COMPOSITION OF FOODS AND DRUGS OTHER THAN MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS
Drugs and ingredients and component parts of drugs shall conform to the standards specified therefor respectively in the British Pharmacopoeia or British Pharmacopoeia Codex.
2. Margarine shall be 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 shall contain neither more than 16% moisture nor more than 10% butter fat.
3. Coffee shall be the seed of Coffea arabica and other species of the genus Coffea and shall contain no foreign substances.
4.
Lard shall be the clean fat rendered from the meat of the hog. It shall contain not more than 1% of substances other than hog fat unavoidably incorporated with it in the process of rendering, and not more than 1% of water. It shall not contain any foreign substance.
5. Vinegar shall be 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, and shall not contain any other foreign substance, except caramel.
6. Malt vinegar shall be vinegar as prescribed in item 5, but it shall be derived wholly from malted barley, with or without addition of cereals, the starch of which has been saccharified by the diastase of malt.
Nothing prescribed in this item or in item 5 shall apply to Chinese native vinegar sold as such under the names of Chit Ts'o (), Pak Ts'o (B) or Hak Ts'o (AM).
7. Honey shall contain not more than 5% of sucrose.
8. Baking powder shall yield not more than 1.5% of its weight of residual carbon dioxide and not less than 8% of its weight of available carbon dioxide, the weight of residual and available carbon dioxide, respectively, being determined in the following manner--
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[Subsidiary]
Name in which proceedings may be brought. L.N. 30/67. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
INTI969
Compliance with other labelling requirements. L.N. 222/85.
L.N. 45/75.
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