Report on the milk supply of Finsbury, 1903 : a special report ordered to be printed by the Public Health Committee / by George Newman.

  • Finsbury (London, England). Public Health Committee.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Report on the milk supply of Finsbury, 1903 : a special report ordered to be printed by the Public Health Committee / by George Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greater on Sundays than week-days. About 50 per cent, of the London dairymen are said to use preservatives.* It may also be desirable to add here that as a result of a Special Report by a Departmental Committee, the Board of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, have made the following Regulations :— 1. Where a sample of milk (not being milk sold as skimmed, or separated, or condensed, milk) contains less than 3 per cent, of milk-fat, it shall be presumed for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine, by reason of the abstraction therefrom of milk-fat, or the addition thereto of water. [Although the Departmental Committee recom- mended a higher standard.] 2. Where a sample of milk (not being sold as skimmed, or separated, or condensed, milk) contains less that 8'5 per cent, of milk-solids other than milk-fat, it shall be presumed for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine, by reason of the abstraction therefrom of milk- solids other than milk-fat, or the addition thereto of water. 3. Where a sample of skimmed or separated milk (not being condensed milk) contains less than 9 per cent, of milk-solids, it shall be presumed for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to j 899, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is not genuine, by reason of of the abstraction therefrom of milk-solids other than milk-fat, or the addition thereto of water. 4. These regulations shall extend to great Britain. 5. These regulations shall come into operation on the First day of September, One thousand nine hundred and one. 6. These regulations may be cited as the Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901. These regulations lay down standards similar to those which have been adopted for some years by most Public Analysts. The Departmental Committee appointed in 1899, to consider the questions of Preservatives and Colouring Matters in Food, and quoted above, reported, as follows :— 1. That the use of Formaldehyde in food and drink be absolutely prohibited, and that Salicylic Acid be not used in greater proportion than one grain per pint or pound respectively for liquid or solid food, its presence in all cases to be declared. 0Report of Departmental Committee on Preservatives and Colouring Matters in Food, Board of Agriculture, 1901, pp. xii-xvii.