Report upon the Sale of Food and Drugs amended Bill, to the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

  • Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Report upon the Sale of Food and Drugs amended Bill, to the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London / by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    analysis thereof, for which purpose samples may^ when deemed necessary by such inspectors, be taken and mth all convenient speed be examined by the analysts to be so appointed ; and if upon such analysis the same shall be found to be mixed with other substances or exhausted tea, the same shall not be delivered uiiless with the sanction of the said Commissioners, and on such terms and con- ditions as they shall see fit to direct, either for home consumption, or for use as ship's stores, or for exportation; but if on such inspection and analysis it shall appear that such tea is, in the opinion of the analyst, unfit for human food, the same shall be forfeited and destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the said Commissioners may dh-ect. The Customs may thus sanction the sale of tea adulterated with the leaves of other plants, mixed Avith lie tea, sand, quartz, magnetic oxide of iron [from the ferruginous earth upon which many of the tea plantations in China are cultivated], &c., or painted {i.e. coloured) with plumbago, indigo, turmeric, China clay, or other substances. It must be obvious that the power so given is liable to gross abuse, and I cannot believe the legislature will sanction it. Under any circumstances all the words after destroyed should be omitted from this clause,