✨ Food and Drug Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44
MALT, MALT-EXTRACT, ETC.
35. (1.) Malt shall be the seed of barley, or of some other cereal, designated on the label, which has been caused to germinate, and which has been subsequently dried.
Malt-extract.
(2.) Malt-extract shall be the substance obtained by evaporating an aqueous extract of malt at a temperature not exceeding 55° C.; it shall contain not less than seventy parts per centum of solids derived wholly from malt. Its diastasic power shall be such that one hundred grains of the extract will in thirty minutes, at a temperature of 40° C., convert not less than 250 grains of pure anhydrous potato-starch into an equivalent amount of maltose as estimated by the Harrison-Gair method.
Liquid Malt-extract.
(3.) Liquid malt-extract shall contain not less than fifty parts per centum of solids wholly derived from malt. It shall possess diastasic power corresponding to that of malt-extract.
Bakers’ or “Commercial” Malt-extract, or Bakers’ Maltose.
(4.) Bakers’ or “commercial” malt-extract, or bakers’ maltose, shall contain not less than seventy parts per centum of solids wholly derived from malt.
Malt-extract and Cod-liver Oil.
(5.) Malt-extract and cod-liver oil shall be an emulsion composed of malt-extract and cod-liver oil; it shall contain not less than fifteen parts per centum by weight of cod-liver oil.
Labelling.
(6.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing an emulsion of malt-extract and cod-liver oil a statement showing the proportions in which the ingredients are present in the following form:—
“This mixture contains not less than [Here insert the number of parts per centum] parts per cent. by weight of cod-liver oil.”MEAT, FROZEN AND MANUFACTURED MEAT, FISH, ETC.
Meat.
36. (1.) Meat shall be the properly dressed wholesome edible parts of any healthy well-conditioned and properly slaughtered animal ordinarily used for human consumption, and includes crustacean, fish, fowl, mammal, and mollusc. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind, composition, or origin, it shall correspond thereto.
Fresh and Chilled Meat.
(2.) Fresh and chilled meat shall be raw meat which has been kept at any temperature above 35° Fahr.
Frozen Meat.
(3.) Frozen meat shall be raw meat which has been kept at a temperature below its freezing-point.
Pickled and Smoked Meat.
(4.) Salted, pickled, or corned and smoked meat shall be meat prepared with salt, saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate), sugar, vinegar, spices, or smoke, singly or in combination.
Manufactured Meats.
(5.) Manufactured meat shall be meats simple or mixed, whole, minced or comminuted, cooked or uncooked, in bulk or in package, with or without the addition of salt, saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate), sugar, vinegar, spices, herbs, smoke, edible oils, or rendered meat-fat, singly or in combination.
Prohibition.
(6.) Saltpetre (potassium or sodium nitrate) shall not be mixed with salted, pickled, or corned, smoked, or manufactured meat in any larger proportion than fourteen grains per pound, calculated as potassium nitrate (KNO₃).
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Revocation and Replacement of Food and Drugs Regulations
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare23 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, Flour, Bread, Meals, Whole-meal Flour, Part Whole-meal Flour, Self-raising Flour, Whole-meal Bread, Brown Bread, White Bread, Barley-bread, Rye-bread, Mixed-meal Bread, Oatmeal, Rice, Polished Rice, Rice-flour, Ground Rice, Cornflour, Maize-meal, Mixed Meals, Custard-powder, Cream of Tartar, Cream-of-tartar Substitutes, Baking-powder, Infants’ Food, Invalids’ Food, Malt, Malt-extract, Liquid Malt-extract, Bakers’ Malt-extract, Bakers’ Maltose, Malt-extract and Cod-liver Oil, Meat, Fresh and Chilled Meat, Frozen Meat, Pickled and Smoked Meat, Manufactured Meats