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✨ Food Regulations

JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1515

FLOUR, BREAD, AND MEALS.

Whole-meal Flour.

(1.) Whole-meal flour shall be the clean sound product obtained by grinding and milling well-cleaned sound milling-wheat, and shall contain all the constituents of such wheat. It shall contain not more than fourteen parts per centum of moisture. It shall not contain any added substance. Mixtures of flour and bran shall not be sold as whole-meal flour.

Part Whole-meal Flour.

(2.) Part whole-meal flour shall be the clean sound product obtained by grinding and milling well-cleaned sound milling-wheat, a portion of the bran and germ being removed in the process. It shall contain not more than fourteen parts per centum of moisture, not less than sixty parts per centum of the bran and germ originally present in the wheat, and not less than one and five-tenths parts per centum of fat and five-tenths parts per centum of phosphoric anhydride. It shall not contain any added substance. Mixtures of flour and bran shall not be sold as part wholemeal flour.

Flour.

(3.) Flour shall be the fine, clean, and sound product obtained by bolting wheatmeal. It shall not be artificially bleached, nor shall it be sprayed at any stage of its production. It shall contain not more than fourteen parts per centum of moisture, not less than one and three-tenths parts per centum of nitrogen, not more than five-tenths parts per centum of fibre, and shall yield not more than one part per centum of ash. It shall not contain any added substance.

Self-raising Flour.

(4.) Self-raising flour shall be flour to which the ingredients of baking-powder have been added. It shall liberate not less than forty-five grains weight of carbon dioxide per pound when moistened and heated, and it shall contain not more than seven grains weight of sulphates calculated as calcium sulphate, per pound. It shall not contain any other added substance.

Whole-meal Bread.

(5.) Whole-meal bread shall be the porous substance obtained by moistening and kneading whole-meal flour with provision for the “raising” of the dough by air or carbonic-acid gas, and the proper baking thereof. It may contain salt and not more than ten parts per centum of flour. It shall not contain any added mineral substance save salt.

Brown Bread.

(6.) Brown bread shall be the porous substance obtained by moistening and kneading “part whole-meal flour” (as defined in clause (2) above) or a mixture of whole-meal flour and flour in the proportions of not less than sixty of whole-meal flour to forty of flour, with provision for the “raising” of the dough by air or carbonic acid gas, and the proper baking thereof. It may contain salt, malt extract, and not more than ten parts per centum of rye-meal. It shall not contain any added mineral substance save salt.

White Bread or Bread.

(7.) White bread or bread shall be the porous substance obtained by moistening and kneading flour, with provision for the raising of the dough by air or carbonic acid gas and the proper baking thereof. It shall not contain more than forty-five parts per centum of water in any part of the loaf. It shall not yield more than two parts per centum of total ash, and not more than two-tenths of one part per centum of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. It shall not contain any added mineral substance save salt, and ten grammes of the crumb taken from the centre of the loaf shall not contain more acid than is required for the neutralization of two cubic centimeters of decinormal solution of sodium hydroxide.

Barley-bread and Rye-bread.

(8.) Bread made from other than wheat-grain shall be the porous substance obtained by moistening, kneading, panification, and baking of the meal obtained by grinding sound clean grain.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1924, No 44

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1924, No 44

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

Domain🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Dated23 June 1924
KeywordsSale 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, Flour, Bread, Meals, Whole-meal Flour, Part Whole-meal Flour, Self-raising Flour, Whole-meal Bread, Brown Bread, White Bread, Barley-bread, Rye-bread

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