Foods: their composition and analysis : A manual for the use of analytical chemists and others. With an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / By Alexander Wynter Blyth. With numerous tables and illustrations.

Alexander Wynter Blyth

Date:: 1882

Credit: Foods: their composition and analysis : A manual for the use of analytical chemists and others. With an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / By Alexander Wynter Blyth. With numerous tables and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$38&39Viot. c. 63. Short title. In Rale of adulterated articles, no defence to allege purchase for analysis. Ofacer, inspector, or constable may obtain a sample of milk at the place of delivery to submit to analyst. Penalty for refusal to give milk for analysis. Extension of Act as to sale in streets, &c. Keduction allowed to the extent of 25 degrees under proof for brandy, ■whisky, or rum, and 35 degrees for gin. Extension of meaning of county. Quarter session boroughs not to contribute to county analyst. 6 & C W. 4. c. 70. Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment Act, 1879, [42 & 43 Vict. c. 30.] Whereas conflicting decisions have been given in England and in Scotland in regard to the meaning and effect of section six of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 187.5, in this Act referred to as the l^rincipal Act, and it is expedient, in this respect and otherwise, to amend the said Act: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment Act, 1879. 2. In auy prosecution under the provisions of the principal Act for selling to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser, it shall be no defence to any such prosecution to allege that the purchaser, having bought only for analysis, was not prejudiced by such sale. Neither shall it be a good defence to prove that the article of food or drug in question, though defective in nature or in substance or in quality, was not defective in all three respects. 3. Any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances, or inspector of weights and measm-es, or any inspector of a market, or any police constable under the direction and at the cost of the local authority appointing such officer, inspector, or constable, or charged with the execution of this Act, may procure at the place of delivery any sample of any milk in course of delivery to the pur- chaser or consignee in pursuance of any contract for the sale to such purchaser or consignee of such milk; and such officer, inspector, or constable, if he suspect the same to have been sold contrarj' to any of the ijrovisions of the principal Act, shall submit the same to be analysed, and the same shall be analysed, and proceedings shall be taken, and penalties on conviction be enforced in like manner in all respects as if such officer, inspector, or constable had purchased the same from the seller or consignor under section thirteen of the princiijal Act. 4. The seller or consignor or any person or persons entrusted by him for the time being with the charge of such milk, if he shall refuse to allow such officer, inspector, or constable to take the qu.-vntity which such officer, inspector, or constable shall require for the purpose of analysis, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 5. Any street or open place of public resort shall be held to come within the meaning of section seventeen of the principal Act. 6. In determining whether an ofifence has been committed under section six of the said Act by selling, to the prejudice of the pur- chaser, spirits not adulterated otherwise than by the adinixture of water, it shall be a good defence to prove that such admixture has not reduced the spirit more than twenty-five degrees under proof for brandy, whisky, or rum, or thirty-five degrees under proof for gin. 7. Every lil)ertj' ha\ang a separate court of quarter sessions, e.xcept a liberty of a cinriue port, shall be deemed to be a county within the meaning of the said Act. 8. The town cotiticil of any borough having a separate court of quarter sessions shall be exem])t from contributing towards the expenses incurred in the execution of the principal Act in respect of the county \vithin which sucli l)orough is situate, and the treasurer of the county shall exclude the exjjenses so incurred from the account re(iuired by section one hundred and seventeen of the Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, to bo sent by huu to such town council.$