New Zealand Gazette – 1924 – No. 44

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✨ Food and Drug Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

Salmon.

(17.) There shall be written in the label attached to every hermetically sealed package containing salmon for sale for human consumption, in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement, the trade name of the variety of salmon contained in the package.

GELATINE.

  1. (1.) Gelatine sold for human consumption shall be the clean wholesome product obtained from skin, membranes, bones, and other collagenous bodies. It shall yield not more than three parts per centum of ash. A five-per-centum aqueous solution shall form a jelly when kept at a temperature of 65° Fahr. for two hours. A five-per-centum aqueous solution prepared with sterilized water at a temperature not exceeding 90° Fahr. shall not become alkaline or emit any unpleasant odour after standing for forty-eight hours in a Petri dish at a temperature of 80° Fahr.

Preservative.

(2.) Gelatine may contain sulphur-dioxide (or sulphites calculated as sulphur dioxide) in proportion not exceeding three and one-half grains of sulphur-dioxide to the pound of dry marketable gelatine sold for human consumption. Declaration of the presence of sulphur-dioxide, or of a preparation of sulphur-dioxide, in gelatine sold for human consumption, is not required unless the proportion contained in it exceeds five-tenths of one grain to the pound.

Labelling.

(3.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package which contains gelatine sold for human consumption a statement, in bold-faced sans-serif capitals of not less size than eight points face-measurement, the words “For food.” The said words shall form the first line of the label, and no other word shall appear on the same line.

EGGS.

  1. (1.) For the purpose of these regulations the term “eggs” means the eggs of poultry. The term “fresh eggs means eggs in which no process of putrefaction and no development of the ovum has begun, and the shells of which are clean and unbroken. The air cell shall be not more than three-eighths of one inch in depth.

Imported Eggs.

(2.) Eggs imported into New Zealand, and the packages containing the same, shall be stamped as hereinafter set out to indicate the country of origin, and no eggs shall be admitted into New Zealand unless and until such stamping has been effected.

(3.) Each egg in every consignment shall be stamped on the shell in indelible ink, and in bold sans-serif capital letters of not less size than six points face-measurement, with the words “Imported from,” followed by the name of the country in which the eggs were laid.

(4.) Each package in which eggs imported into New Zealand are contained shall be stamped, in bold-faced capital letters of not less size than seventy-two points face-measurement, with the words “Imported from,” followed by the name of the country in which the eggs contained in the package were laid.

(5.) Every person who introduces or attempts to introduce any eggs into New Zealand without having them stamped in accordance with the requirements hereinbefore prescribed for the stamping of eggs and the packages containing the same shall be deemed to have committed an offence against these regulations.

Preserved Eggs.

(6.) Eggs for sale which have been preserved by “water glass” or other chemical substance shall be stamped on the shells in indelible ink and in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than six points face-measurement with the word “Preserved.”

Cool-store Eggs.

(7.) (a.) When eggs are placed in cool storage the containers in which such eggs are packed shall be suitably fastened and sealed and marked in plain letters of not less size than seventy-two points



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

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
23 June 1924
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