Adulterated Milk.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 255, 1 November 1904, Page 2

Adulterated Milk.

/Per Prose Association ) WELLINGTON, Oct 81 i Several city milk vendors weni .'«. ' day proceed «g„i n ., t »™B «oM milk r o r fouf j j„ "!^ u f l«r»UMl.t rt e. In one cose it W as found by tho * £,„s• that » sample obtained at the do. • foudmf* shop contained 095 1. cent 0 f sows (the act Jrcß 9 iw • uiu.j, and was adultercd with 18 i lj«- cent, of water. The deface" to this change was that tho sampfe <*- . aaned was token from a bucket coo- .' taming rwelngs o( cans used on the rounds, and that thu mar. waa .J.; nwsit. Mad W ho, had hoc* left tat the f„n ■. He had hni<l '"sections not'' to sell that particular milk. I n the «~ond caso the Government- Analyst ; sw»d he found i,, the sample 50 i» cent, moro boracic, acid than waa' u»,.a ly added (or preservative purHo that this ££• should not bo added to milk at all ■ because it was Injurious to health. An officer 0 f the Health Department Rave evidence that boracic acid in Mhs quantity , would interfere with nutrition in, <;hildren. About 51 gmmsi per ,gallotn had bom uSeU. Ihe defence wus that the defendant did not know that the milk, sup* plied to him from tho country, Was adulterated. In tlw third case, the (lovo'-nraunt Analyst found that the sample contained 2.11 per cant, of butter-fat and 8.85 per cent., of solids, whereas the act requires that all milk shall contain nt least 2.5 per rent, of fat and 9 per cent, of solid:. In this case the defendants roliiri for tt defence on tho exemption clause in the act, on the ground that they had purchased bona fide from tho original supplier. Judomeats wuro reserved by tho S.M '