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.

  • W. Sedgwick Saunders
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and under no conditions should the Customs be allowed to return any exhausted tea into bond, espe- cially as the 30th Clause defines that it shall mean and include any tea which has been deprived of its proper quality, strength, or virtue, by steeping, infusion, decoction, or other means. It should be known that large quantities, probably more than ten millions (10,000,000) of poun(3s, of grossly adulterated and unwholesome teas are still lying in the bonded warehouses, the accumulations of many years past; indeed, I have been informed by a large dealer in this article that much more of such rubbish is deposited there at the present time than is likely to be imported for a long period to come. That this disgraceful state of thmgs is well known to Her Majesty's Government may be mferred from a communication received by your Honourable Court from the Secretary of the Commissioners of Customs, who, in a letter dated 25th May, 1871, stated—in reply to an inquiry made by your directions as to whether the Customs Officers are empowered, on due information given them, to seize and destroy such {i.e. unsound and spurious tea), on certificate that the same is unfit for human food,—that: The officers of this Revenue are not empowered, either on information given to them, or on cer- tificate that the same is unfit for human food, to seize and destroy tea, whether spuiious or not.
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