SUGAR AND VINEGAR PASSED AS SHERRY
RcctMvcd Tuesdnv, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 15. Tlie Government proposes to ma ko (•ha nges in the l'ure Food and Drugs Act ronipolling all retailers of wines and spirits to give details ot the coutcnts 011 the lahels of all goods offered for salo. This is designed to eheek the gi*t ricli (juick merohants vvlio aro llcei-ing the public 1) y solling liogus or inforior grade '.vines and spirits at exhorbiiant prices. Liquor reeently sci/cd by the police in West End night clubs and hotels was fonnd to be not onlv eheaj) rubbish but also in some cases, deiinitely injurions, to health. Oondiinations of sugar and vinegar have been discovered masquerading as sherrv and in oue ease ehloroform was fonnd in a synthetie wine. For some timo the wine and spirit trade has been pressing .Mr. Strachev to take aetion t o protect the good naine of the industrv and it is now learned definite measures are proposed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1947, Page 5
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