JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1517

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(2.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing an acid or an acid salt used in baking, other than cream of tartar, the name of the acid or acid salt, and where two or more names are available the name or names most commonly in use shall be given. Such name or names shall be conspicuously written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement.

BAKING-POWDER.

32. (1.) Baking-powder shall be a salt or a mixture of salts, with or without a farinaceous diluent substance, which evolves carbon-dioxide on being moistened and heated, and which may be used in the preparation of articles of food as a chemical leaven. It shall contain not more than one and five-tenths parts per centum by weight of sulphates, calculated as calcium-sulphate; it shall yield not less than ten parts per centum by weight of carbon-dioxide on heating with water; and it shall not contain any alum or compound of aluminium. Coloured baking-powder shall conform to this standard.

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(2.) (a.) The word “egg” and expressions or devices, which imply or suggest the presence of egg or the equivalent of egg, shall not be written on or attached to any package which contains baking-powder.

(b.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing baking-powder the name of the acid material employed in the manufacture of the baking-powder, and where two or more names are available the name most commonly in use shall be given. Such name shall be written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than twelve points face-measurement, in the following form:—

“Prepared with [Here state the name of the acid material.]”

INFANTS’ FOOD.

33. (1.) Infants’ food shall be any food described or sold as an article of food suitable for infants. It shall not contain any woody fibre, nor any mineral substance which is insoluble in acid, nor any preservative substance.

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(2.) (a.) In the label attached to every package of infants’ food which, when prepared as directed by any accompanying statement or label, contains more than one per cent. of starch, or otherwise does not conform approximately in proportional composition to human milk, shall be written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than six points face-measurement the words—

“THIS FOOD SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO INFANTS UNDER THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS, EXCEPT UNDER MEDICAL DIRECTION.”

The said words shall be the first words of the label, and no other word shall be written on the same line or lines.

(b.) The year and the month of the year in which the food was prepared shall be marked on the label attached to every package containing infants’ food, in the following form:—

“Packed on [Here insert date].”

INVALIDS’ FOOD.

34. (1.) Invalids’ food shall be any food described or sold as an article of food suitable for invalids. It shall consist of food-substances modified, prepared, or compounded so as to possess special nutritive and assimilative properties which render them specially suitable for use as food by invalids.

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(2.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing any article of food described as or purporting to be invalids’ food a statement of the ingredients contained in it on which the claim of special suitability for invalids is based. In the case of a food described as or purporting to be suitable for persons suffering from diabetes, the proportion per centum of carbo-hydrate (starch, sugar, &c.) present must be stated.