DAIRY CO.’S PROSECUTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 392, 28 June 1928, Page 13

DAIRY CO.’S PROSECUTED

BORIC ACID IN BUTTER TRIFLING CASE DISMISSED Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. Further pi-osecutions arising out ol the sale of butter failing to comply with the regulations of the Food and Drugs Act were conducted on behalf oi the inspector of health in the Police Court this morning. The first case was against the Lockiel Co-operative Dairy Co.. Ltd., for having butter for sale containing boric acid, the addition of which is forbidden by the new regulations under the Act. Analysis taken showed that one samplt contained 30.2 grains a pound of preservative. The amount in the other was much smaller, one test showing none. The factory, in the ordinary course, manufactured cheese, and this was why butter was sold to the supplier's of milk. The magistrate said it was reasonable to make a little allowance in view ol the new regulations, but in any case the defendant company had been exceeding the limit which was allowec before, which was 20 grains. It had tc be considered, too, that only milk suppliers who preferred preservatlsed butter were getting it, and the genera public were not being taken down ir any way. A fine of £1 was imposed The second case was against the Invercargill Milk Supply Co.. Ltd., for having on sale butter containing p greater percentage of water than is allowed by the Act. Two charges wert preferred in respect of one sample containing 16.16 per cent, of water anc another containing 16.09 per cent, oi water, the maximum legal percentage being 16. The magistrate disxnissed the case as trifling.