ADULTERATED SAUSAGES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 4

ADULTERATED SAUSAGES

PORK PUTCHER FINED. A ol'avsre of wllins pork sansnKes wliioli did not comply with the roßUifltions provided for in the Food and Tlrurts •Vet was preferred ngpainst John Kuoh, park butcher, Courteuay Place, at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The alleiration was that the sauces were found to contain more than G per cont. of Ifr'x R.. Premlevillo. of the Crown law Office, who nwecuted. stated that tho Act permitted the use of not more thnn G per cent, of starch in tho manu-facture-of sausages. This measure represented ail eouiveleut of 12 per-cent, if bread, but defendant's smmw* «m----fetined 10 do' - « nl '' flf st " rc!l or wr cent, of bread. It was the first nrnsecut!on of its kind, and was-brought as a warning. , Mr. P. K. Putnam, who ronrp*enfed tho defendant. admitted the facts of tho case, ii"d said that h : B client was unaware that he lrnl put mora than the authorised ouantity if starch in tho. sauf-n-'cc He submitted flint it was not a case for a fine, and suited that a mere conviction would m-et tW ensi' for the reason t.hut he understood that tho cc,so wis onlv brought as a warning ' K's (Mr. R Paw. S.M.) impeded a fine of .£2 and costs 17s. Od.