Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others ; with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / Alexander Wynter Blyth ... and Meredith Wynter Blyth.
- Alexander Wynter Blyth
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
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 / Alexander Wynter Blyth ... and Meredith Wynter Blyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![BUTTER AND MARGARINE ACT, 1907. Ax Act to make further provision with respect to the Manufacture, Importation, and Sale of Butter and Margarine and similar Substances. [7 Edw. 7, ch. 21.] Be it enacted by the King’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. _(l.) The provisions of section nine of the Margarine Act, 1887, as amended by section seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, relating to the registration of manufactories of margarine, shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to— (a) Butter factories, that is to say, any premises on which by way of trade butter is blended, reworked, or subjected to any other treatment, but not so as to cease to be butter; and (b) any premises on which there is manufactured any milk-blended butter (that is to say, any mixture produced by mixing or blending butter with milk or cream (other than condensed milk or cream) or on which there is carried on the business of a wholesale dealer in milk-blended butter. (2.) The provisions of section seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, relating to registers of consignments of margarine, shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to consignments of milk-blended butter. (3.) Premises shall not be used as a butter factory if they form part of or communi- cate, otherwise than by a public street or road, with any other premises which are required to be registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts or under paragraph (b) of this section, and if any premises are so used the occupier thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and the local authority shall remove from the register of butter factories kept by them any premises used as a butter factory contrary to this provision : Provided that this subsection shall not apply to premises which on the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and seven were being used as a butter factory and formed part of or communicated with premises which were then registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, if and so long as the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries so direct. 2. —(1.) Any officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or of the Local Government Board shall have power to enter at all reasonable times any premises registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts or this Act, and to inspect any process of manufacture, blending, reworking, or treatment used therein, and to take samples for analysis of any butter, margarine, margarine cheese, milk-blended butter, or of any article capable of being used in the manufacture, treatment, or adulteration of any such article as aforesaid. (2.) An officer of a local authority who is authorised to procure samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts shall, if specially authorised in that behalf by the local authority, have the like powers of entry, inspection, and sampling as regards any premises registered with the authority as a butter factory. (3.) If the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have reason to believe— (а) that on any unregistered premises there is carried on any process of manufacture, blending, reworking, or treatment or any wholesale dealing which under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts or this Act cannot be carried on except on registered premises; or (б) that on any premises butter is by way of trade either made or stored, and that for the purposes of those Acts inspection is desirable, the Board may specially authorise any officer of the Board to enter the premises, and in such case the officer shall have the like powers of entry, inspection, and sampling as if the premises were registered. (4.) Where under this section a special authority is required, an officer of the Board or of a local authority shall not be entitled to exercise any of his powers under this section unless, if so requested by or on behalf of the occupier of the premises to be entered, he produces his authority. (5.) Subsection (2) of section seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, is hereby repealed. 3. —If any substance intended to be used for the adulteration of butter is found in any butter factory, the occupier of the factory shall be found guilty of an offence under this Act, and if any oil or fat capable of being so used is found it shall be deemed to be intended to be so used, unless the contrary is proved. Registration of factories and consign- ments. 50 & 51 Viet, c. 29. 62 & 63 Viet, c. 51. Inspection of factories. Prohibition of adulte- rants in butter fac- tories. 39](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21537537_0653.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
