New Zealand Gazette – 1924 – No. 44

Page 1525

✨ Food and Drug Regulations



JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1525

unsalted butter of good quality, and potable water. It shall contain
not less than eight and five-tenths parts per centum of milk-solids
other than milk-fat and not less than three and one-quarter parts
per centum of milk-fat. It shall not contain any substance foreign
to milk. When subjected to the reductase test (as prescribed in
regulation 42 of these regulations) it shall not completely decolorize
the methylene blue in less than four hours.

Labelling.

(2.) No person shall carry for sale in any can, vessel, or measure
any reconstituted milk unless the said can, vessel, or measure is
durably marked on the outside with the words “Reconstituted milk.”
The said words shall be conspicuously displayed on the side, shoulder,
or neck of the can, vessel, or measure in bold-faced sans-serif capital
letters of not less size than seventy-two points face-measurement.

(3.) Every person who sells reconstituted milk shall, with every
quantity delivered to a customer, deliver also to the person receiving
the milk a label bearing the words “Reconstituted milk” printed in
bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twenty-four
points face-measurement.

Reconstituted Cream.

(4.) Reconstituted cream shall be cream prepared by suitable
machinery from unsalted butter of good quality potable water and
dried milk, or dried skim-milk. It shall contain not less than forty
parts per centum of milk-fat. It shall not contain any substance
foreign to milk.

Labelling.

(5.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package
which contains reconstituted cream in bold-faced sans-serif capital
letters of not less size than eighteen points face-measurement the
words “Reconstituted Cream.”

BUTTER.

  1. (1.) Butter shall be the clean, non-rancid solid product
    obtained by the churning of milk or cream, with or without the
    addition of common salt and of harmless vegetable colouring-matter,
    and includes “whey butter” as hereinafter defined. It shall contain
    not less than eighty parts per centum of milk-fat and not more than
    sixteen parts per centum of water. It shall not contain any foreign
    fat or oil nor any other foreign substance except salt, harmless
    vegetable colouring-matter, and preservative.

Whey-butter.

(2.) Whey-butter shall be butter which is manufactured wholly or
in part from milk-fat recovered from whey.

Preservative.

(3.) Boron compounds estimated as boric acid may be mixed with
butter as a preservative substance, provided that the proportion
present does not exceed twenty grains per pound.

Labelling.

(4.) Whey-butter shall not be sold save with a statement or label
attached on which shall be clearly written or printed, on a white
ground in black capital letters of a size not less than thirty-six points
face-measurement the words “Whey-butter.”

Process Butter and Renovated Butter.

(5.) Process butter or renovated butter shall be the product ob-
tained by melting and reworking, or rechurning and reworking, butter,
with the addition of milk, cream, water, or any other substance.

(6.) The sale of process butter or renovated butter is hereby pro-
hibited.

CHEESE.

  1. (1.) Cheese or whole-milk cheese shall be the solid product
    obtained by coagulating the caseinogen of milk by means of rennet
    or acids, with or without the addition of ripening-ferments, seasoning-
    substances, salt, and harmless vegetable colouring-matter. It shall
    contain in the water-free substance not less than fifty parts per centum
    of fat wholly derived from milk, and it shall not contain any foreign
    fat.


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