The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West. Coast Times. MONDAY, .JULY 7th, 1924. PURITY OF FOODS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1924, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West. Coast Times. MONDAY, .JULY 7th, 1924. PURITY OF FOODS.

|2 The vniious regulations governing >3 the salt- ol foods and drugs have for iJ some time la-on under revision I>v the |t Heath Do; a.tnient anting in consul- ->> tr.tion with the various trades afl'ee- / ted. I lie task has been completed and 2 new iemulations will come into force » on August 1, dealing principally with Z the constituents of foodstuffs, their % 1 re; niation, weight and stoiago and *. the Ini.oiling of goods and packages, j Among the new regulations is 1 a ■' stipulation n-ga.tding the weight o' 'l butter and tea. The practice lias been i common for certain manufacturers of \ hiitter to la l ei their product c'not ; less than loo 7.. net” t i safeguard J themselves in the event of some lib f packages being found slightly under J weight. In the opinion of the health ' authorities this practice was an at- > lenil t to get round the regulations and > its effect was sometimes to give the : purchaser less weight than lie anticipated. To protect the buying public , and those manufacturers who did not resort to the practice complained of, the new regulation stipulates that the weight of packages of butter shall lie either Boz. >r 1 Goz. nr a multiple of Uh. A regulation similarly provides for the weight of tea with the addition that paekges of 40r., he allowed for. Tho stamping and Inlielling of eggs imported from other countries, and eggs kept in cool storage or preserved is provided for in another new 1 icgulntion. Kach egg,, it i« stipulated. ' must l>e stamped on the shell in ined- I lihle ink with the words “imported 1 from.” followed hr the name of the country in which the eggs were laid, a Packages containing such eggs must 1 he similarly stamped. Eggs for sale, t which have lieen preserved hv “water- f glass” or other chemical substance, c must be stamped on the shells with tho t word “preserved.” Any person un- " dertaking the 000 l storage of eggs for 0 sale is obliged to keep a record indi- p eating the ownership of the eggs, the dates respectively on which the eggs were received and withdrawn, and the n

name of the person withdrawing the eggs. The sale of eggs which have boon in cool storage for a longer period than ten weeks is prohibited unless each egg is stamped with the word “chilled.” Clauses provide that syrups and artificial drinks sold at soda water liars shall he elassilied hv labels on the containers and that all syrups shall Ik 1 labelled to show whether they are nititicial or not. New clauses, governing tin- preparation of ice crea'in. permit the addition of not more than live-tenths of 1 pel cent of gelatine or gum trageanth for thickening purposes. Previously the use of .such substances was prohibited. Cleanliness of receptacles used for the preparation of foods and drinks is insisted upon in several entirely new regulations. Pasteurised milk is defined in another clause as milk which has been retained at a temperature of not less than 1-15 degrees Fahrenheit and not more than 150 degrees for at least thirty minutes and immediately cooled to temperature of not more than 7)0 degrees. The milk shall not he So heated more than once and shall not he otherwise treated hv heat.