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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

other food substances, such as butter, fresh eggs, milk, chocolate, nuts, and fruits; it shall not contain any paraffin, nor any resin, nor any foreign mineral substance except drugs, nor any drug concerning which any restrictive law or regulation is in force, nor shall it contain or enclose any alcoholic liquor or compound: Provided that nothing in this regulation shall be taken to prohibit the manufacture by confectioners of lozenges and the like which contain a drug concerning which any restrictive law or regulation is in force, for wholesale supply to the order of a registered pharmaceutical chemist.
(2.) No person shall refill with confectionery for sale any package which is made wholly or in part of wood, paper, cardboard, or the like absorbent material.

Labelling.

(3.) There shall be written in the principal label attached to every package which contains confectionery medicated by the addition of any drug, concerning which there is no restrictive law or regulation in force, the word “Medicated,” in bold-faced sans-serif capital types of not less size than twelve points face measurement.

30. PASTRY.

The word “pastry” shall include pastry, cakes, and biscuits. Pastry shall be a product of the mixture of two or more of the following substances, selected, combined, and cooked as may be desired: Various kinds of flour or starch, water, fresh or separated milk, cream, fresh eggs, butter, edible fats or oils, sugar, honey or molasses, almonds or other oleaginous seeds, sound fruits or preparations of sound fruits, other wholesome food substances, harmless flavourings, harmless colouring-matters. Pastry shall not contain any dried albumen, yolk of egg preserved with any preservative substance, nor any artificial sweetening-substance, mineral oil or fat, alum, or sulphate of copper.

31. ICE-CREAM AND ICES.

Ice-cream.

(1.) Ice-cream shall be a food-stuff composed of milk and of cream, with sugar, with or without fresh eggs, flavoured with fruit, or with the juice or pulp of fruit, or with nuts or with harmless vegetable flavouring substances or essences, coloured or not with harmless colouring-substances, and with or without candied fruits, liqueurs, or spirits, singly or in combination, sterilized by boiling, or pasteurized by being kept at a temperature of not less than 156° Fahr. for twenty minutes, or of not less than 165° Fahr. for ten minutes, and subsequently frozen. Ice-cream shall contain not less than ten parts per centum of milk-fat, present in the form of cream.

Ices.

(2.) Ices shall be any preparation of wholesome food-stuffs, with or without addition of harmless vegetable substances or essences or of harmless colouring-matter, sterilized by boiling, or pasteurized by being kept at a temperature of not less than 156° Fahr. for twenty minutes, or of not less than 165° Fahr. for ten minutes, and subsequently frozen.

Bacterial content of Ice-cream and Ices.

(3.) Ice-cream and ices shall not contain more than fifty thousand micro-organisms to the cubic centimeter, nor any harmful or pathogenic organisms.

Prohibitions.

(4.) The addition of visco gen, gelatine, or other thickening substance to ice-cream or to ices is hereby prohibited.
(5.) No person shall refill with ice-cream or with ices for sale any package which is made wholly or in part of wood, paper, cardboard, or the like absorbent material.
(6.) No person shall sell any ice-cream or ices of which the nature of flavour is indicated or declared by the name of any fruit or fruits, flavoured wholly or in part with any substance other than the fruit or fruits named, unless the said name is conjoined with the word “Imitation.”

32. PROVIDING FOR THE CLEANLINESS AND FREEDOM FROM CONTAMINATION OF ICE-CREAM AND ICES.

(1.) No person shall manufacture, store, or deposit any ice-cream or ices for sale, nor suffer them to be manufactured, stored, or deposited, in any open shed or unenclosed space.
(2.) No person shall manufacture, store, or deposit any ice-cream or ices for sale, or suffer them to be manufactured, stored, or deposited for sale in any room or building—

(a.) Unless such room or building is provided with tight, close-jointed walls and floors;
(b.) Unless its internal walls are covered with tiles, smooth iron, or smooth plaster, cement, or wood, painted or colour-washed, or frequently lime-washed;
(c.) Unless its floors are constructed of cement, concrete, tiles, or well-smoothed wood;
(d.) Unless it is well-lighted and ventilated;
(e.) Unless all interior surfaces of the floors and walls thereof are kept constantly clean.
(3.) No person shall manufacture, store, or deposit ice-cream or ices for sale, nor suffer them to be manufactured, stored, or deposited for sale, in any dwelling-room, or in any room communicating directly with a privy or water-closet, or stable, or with an apartment used for sleeping, or in any room having an opening communicating directly with any drain or sewer.
(4.) No person engaged in the manufacture or sale of ice-cream or of ices shall suffer his hands or any part of his person to come in contact with any ice-cream or ices.
(5.) No person shall manufacture, store, or deposit any ice-cream or ices for sale, or store or deposit the ingredients therefor, in any vessel which is not clean; and every person engaged in the manufacture or sale of ice-cream or ices shall at all times maintain all vessels and utensils used for containing or coming into contact with ice-cream or ices, or the ingredients used in the manufacture of ice-cream or ices, in a condition of cleanliness, and shall at all times protect the contents thereof from contamination.
(6.) No person shall sell any ice-cream or ices which, after having been once frozen, have run down or melted, and which have been again frozen.

33. VEGETABLES.

(1.) Vegetables shall be the succulent, clean, and sound edible parts of herbaceous plants commonly used for food.
(2.) Dried vegetables shall be the clean, sound products obtained by the desiccation of properly matured and prepared vegetables under conditions such that no harmful substance is absorbed by or mixed with them.
(3.) Canned or tinned vegetables shall be properly matured and prepared fresh vegetables, with or without salt, sterilized by heat, and packed in hermetically sealed containers.

34. FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS.

Preserved Fruit.

(1.) Preserved fruit shall be any sound fruit or fruit substance preserved either by drying or by immersion in fruit-juice, or in water, or in syrup; it shall not contain any foreign substance save sugar.
(2.) The presence of not more than a trace of sulphur-dioxide in dried fruits, unavoidably remaining from the process of bleaching, shall not be deemed to constitute a contravention of this regulation.
(3.) There shall be written in the principal label attached to every package of preserved fruit the name or names of the fruit or fruits contained in the package, in types of not less size than eighteen points face measurement.

Jam, Conserve, and Marmalade.

(4.) Jam and conserve shall be products obtained by boiling some kind of sound fruit with sugar, except they shall not contain any glucose other than that derived from the cane sugar and the fruit as hereinafter provided, nor any gelatine, starch, nor any other added substance except spices.
(5.) Marmalade shall be the product obtained by boiling sound citrus fruit or fruits with sugar; it shall not contain any added substance other than glucose.
(6.) There shall be written in the principal label attached to every package which contains jam, conserve, or marmalade, in types of not less size than eighteen points face measurement, the word “Jam,” “Conserve,” or “Marmalade,” as the case may require. There shall be also uniformly written in the said label, in bold-faced capital types of not less size than eighteen points face measurement, the name of the fruit or fruits from which the contents of the package have been prepared.

Mixed Jams.

(7.) Mixed jam shall be the product obtained by boiling two or more varieties of sound fruit with sugar. It shall not contain any vegetable substance other than that derived from fruits of the varieties designated on the principal label, except spices. It shall contain not less than fifty parts per centum of the variety of fruit first named in the principal label. It shall not contain any added