New Zealand Gazette – 1924 – No. 44

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✨ Food and Drug Regulations



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their compounds specified in each case: Provided that such metals or compounds are unavoidably present in such food:—

Food. Arsenic (calculated as Grains of Arsenious Oxide As₂O₃). Lead (calculated as Grains of the Metal). Tin (calculated as Grains of the Metal).
Cream of tartar and cream of tartar substitutes 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Custard-powder .. 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Malt and malt preparations 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Baking-powder .. 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Vegetables (in tins) Nil .. Nil .. 2 per lb.
Milk and milk-products (hermetically sealed in tins) Nil .. Nil .. 2 per lb.
Sauces .. .. 1-100th per pint 1-7th per pint 2 per pint.
Vinegar .. .. 1-100th per pint 1-7th per pint 2 per pint.
Pickles .. .. 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. 2 per lb.
Glucose .. .. 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Honey .. .. Nil.. 1-7th per lb. 2 per lb.
Fruit and fruit-products contained in tins Nil .. Nil .. 2 per lb.
Citric and tartaric acid 1-100th per lb. 1-7th per lb. Nil.
Non-dutiable fermented drinks Nil .. 1-100th per gal. Nil.
Flavoured non-alcoholic beverages Nil .. 1-100th per gal. Nil.
Ale, beer, and stout 1-100th per gal. Nil .. Nil.
Fish and meat in tins Nil .. Nil .. 2 per lb.

EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REGULATION 2 HEREOF AS TO LABELLING.

Exemption from all Provisions as to Labelling.

  1. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder shall be exempt from the provisions of regulation 2 hereof:—
    (1.) Simple or uncompounded foods weighed, counted, or measured in the presence of the purchaser.
    (2.) Bread.
    (3.) Foods (except butter, tea, coffee, cocoa, and preparations of cocoa, and mixtures of coffee and chicory), in unsealed packages, packed on retail premises for ready sale thereon.
    (4.) Meat—as standardized by regulation 36, subclauses (1), (2), (3), and (4).

Exemptions from Statement of Trade Description and Measure of Contents.

  1. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder shall be exempt from such of the provisions of regulation 2 hereof as require information by an accompanying or attached label or statement as to the name, trade-name, or description, and as to the weight or number or volume of the contents:—
    (1.) Ginger-beer.
    (2.) Soda-water.
    (3.) Lemonade.
    (4.) Ginger-ale.

Exemptions from Statement of Weight.

  1. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder, and packed or enclosed as herein specified, shall be exempt from such of the provisions of regulation 2 as require information, by an accom-


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🏥 Revocation and Replacement of Food and Drugs Regulations (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
23 June 1924
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, Regulations, Revocation, Replacement, Labelling, Trade-marks, Brands, Exemption, Letter Sizes, Confectionery, Pastry, Ice cream, Ices, Jelly-crystals, Sausage-skins, Artificial cordials, Syrups, Non-alcoholic beverages, Caramel, Cochineal, Chlorophyll, Saffron, Coal-tar dyes, Saccharin, Saxin, Dulcin, Glucin, Artificial sweetening substances, Poisonous metals, Antimony, Arsenic, Lead, Tin