CHEMIST PROSECUTED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 6

CHEMIST PROSECUTED

HEALTH DEPARTMENT CRUSADE. tfSr leleswpl—Wess' iModatlp#) . Tlmaru, February 11. f Arising out of the crusade by .the Health Department to reduce . infant mortality a Timaru. chemist was prosecuted to-day on three charges under the Food and Drugs. Act, .1908, and regulations thereunder, as follow:— (1) Under Section 12, Sub-Section. 1: Selling an article as infants', food, the label stating: that it '/contains all the elements of human milk _ and is therefore capable of supplying the equivalent of natural nourishment,' , and also the statement "malted food," these statements "being false and misleading. • (2) Under Regulation 4: (1). Selling as, infants' food a substance containing woody fibre., (3) Under. Regulation 4: (2) Sejling as. infants' food a substance containing wheat flour, the label not, stating that it. was not fit for infants under' six months. The defendant stated that he had been importing an 4 selling these foods for sixteen years. and labelled them according to the manufacturers' description, having no personal knowledge of the ingredients.' Ho'was convicted on each charge and fined 20s. each on the first and third charges, and ordered to pay the costs of the Court and solicitor's fee £1 Is., and on each of _ three analysis 10s. 6d., which the; Magistrate said should come out of fines. It was stated that these were the first cases of the kind in the Dominion, and the publicity given would be of more service than, a heavy peualty.