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✨ Food and Drug Regulations

JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1529

SPICES AND CONDIMENTS.

General Standard for Spices and Condiments.

(1.) Spices and condiments shall be sound, aromatic, vegetable substances used for the seasoning of food, from which no portion of any volatile oil or other flavouring-substance naturally contained in them has been removed.

Cinnamon.

(2.) Cinnamon shall be the dried bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, from which the outer layers may or may not have been removed.

(3.) Powdered cinnamon shall not contain any cassia, or any other added vegetable or mineral substance.

Cassia and Cassia Buds.

(4.) Cassia and cassia-buds shall be respectively the dried bark and the dried immature fruit of Cinnamomum cassia.

Cloves.

(5.) Cloves shall be the dried flower-buds of Eugenia caryophyllata. They shall not contain any exhausted or partly exhausted cloves, nor any added vegetable or mineral substance, nor more than five parts per centum by weight of clove-stems.

Ginger and Ground Ginger.

(6.) Ginger shall be the washed and dried, or the decorticated and dried, rhizome of Zingiber officinale. It shall not contain any exhausted or partly exhausted ginger, nor any added vegetable or mineral substance.

(7.) Ground ginger shall not contain any exhausted or partly exhausted ginger, nor any added vegetable or mineral substance.

Mace and Nutmeg.

(8.) Mace shall be the dried arillus of Myristica fragrans. It shall not contain the arillus of any other variety of Myristica, including M. malabarica or fatuа (Bombay mace) and M. argentea (wild mace).

(9.) Nutmeg shall be the dried seed of M. fragrans deprived of its testa.

(10.) Ground nutmeg shall not contain any added substance.

Mixed Spice.

(11.) Mixed spice shall be a mixture of sound aromatic vegetable substances used for the seasoning of food, from which no portion of any volatile oil or other flavouring-substance has been removed. Mixed spice shall not contain any added substance.

Black Pepper.

(12.) Black pepper shall be the dried immature berry of Piper nigrum, L. It shall contain not less than six parts per centum of extract soluble in ether, not more than seven parts per centum of total ash, and not less than eight parts per centum of extractive matter soluble in absolute alcohol. It shall not contain any added substance.

Ground Black Pepper.

(13.) Ground black pepper shall be the ground immature berry of Piper nigrum, L., as defined in subclause (12) of this regulation.

White Pepper.

(14.) White pepper shall be the dried mature berry of Piper nigrum L., from which the outer coating has been removed. It shall contain not less than six parts per centum of extract soluble in ether, not more than three and five-tenths parts per centum of ash, and not less than seven parts per centum of extractive matter soluble in absolute alcohol. It shall not contain any added substance, nor more than five parts per centum of black pepper.

Ground White Pepper.

(15.) Ground white pepper shall be the ground berry of Piper nigrum, L., as defined in subclause (14) of this regulation.

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, Spices, Condiments, Standards

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