A DEFICIENT BAKING POWDER
[ • I PURE POOD ACT PROSECUTION. ' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, June 11. A deficiency in a widely-advertised [ and cheap baking powder was the subject of the prosecution of tho Home and Colonial Stores, Ltd., before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., this morning, on a charge of having sold baking powder that, on being healed ivitli water, yielded only 4.61 per cent, of carbon dioxide. r instead of tho 10 per cent, required by the Pure Food and Drugs Act. This \ particular chemical compound gives ' bnkiug powder its chief property of \ "rising" or aerating the confections in which it is used. It was admitted by ' Mr. Hanna, for tho defendants, that \ the bailing powder had been widely advertised and was deficient, but counsel | stated that its deficiency was unknown ' to tho defendants, who had bought tlie ' article in good faith, and had takon all reasonable precautions to ensure its being up to standard. His Worship ' said that though he believed defend--1 ants had acted- honestly and in good faith, they might have, in tho absence of a written guarantee, taken tho precaution of having a sample of the powder analysed. Without that they could i not establish a' complete defence. The ; article was "cheap and nasty" in the i sense that it was a penny per tin • cheaper than tho usual price, while at ' tlio samo time it w<is only half strength. Still tho analysis showed that no alum sulphate or other unwholesome chemical ■ was added to it. There was no ques- ' lion of defendants wilfully doing a wrong, consequently hf would not order any advertisement of the conviction, and would not iuHiet a heavy monetary penalty. Defendants would be fined £2 I , and casta. J
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 3
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288A DEFICIENT BAKING POWDER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 3
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