1532
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 44

faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement the words—

“Containing [Here state in figures the percentage of acetic acid] per cent. of acetic acid.”

Prohibition.

(3.) The word “vinegar” and expressions which include the word “vinegar” shall not be written on or attached to a package which contains an acetic-acid mixture sold for the purpose of being used or which may be used as vinegar, unless it be conjoined with the word “Imitation.”

PICKLES.

56. (1.) Pickles shall be sound vegetables or sound fruits preserved in salt, vinegar, acetic acid, or lactic acid, with or without spices, condiments, or sugar, and with or without harmless colouring or flavouring substances. They shall not contain any foreign substances save salt.

(2.) Pickles which have been made with bleached vegetables shall contain not more than unavoidable traces of sulphurous acid or of its compounds derived from the bleaching process.

SUGAR AND STARCH-SUGAR (GLUCOSE).

Sugar.

57. (1.) Sugar shall be the product chemically known as sucrose or saccharose.

(2.) Granulated, loaf, cut, milled, and powdered sugar shall contain at least ninety-nine and five-tenths parts per centum of sucrose.

Solid Glucose (Starch Sugar).

(3.) Solid glucose shall be the solid product obtained by hydrolysing wholesome starch until there is present not less than seventy parts per centum of reducing sugars calculated as dextrose. The ash present in solid glucose shall not exceed one part per centum.

Glucose Syrup.

(4.) Glucose syrup shall be the clear, viscous product resulting from the partial hydrolysis of wholesome starch, and consists of a mixture of dextrine and reducing sugars. It shall have a specific gravity of from 1·398 to 1·455 (41° to 45° Beaume) at a temperature of 37·5° C.

At a specific gravity of 1·398 it shall not contain more than twenty-one parts per centum of water, and at 1·455 not more than fourteen parts per centum of water, and a corresponding amount between these gravities.

It shall not contain more than one part per centum of ash, calculated on the basis of a specific gravity of 1·398.

Labelling.

(5.) (a.) Every package of solid glucose shall bear a label in which shall be written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement the words “Solid glucose,” followed by a statement of the percentage proportion of reducing sugars present calculated as dextrose.

(b.) In the label attached to every package of glucose syrup there shall be written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than twelve points face-measurement the words “Glucose syrup,” followed by a statement of the specific gravity of such syrup, and the percentage proportion of water contained therein.

HONEY.

58. Honey shall be the nectar and saccharine exudations of plants gathered, modified, and stored by the honey-bee; it shall contain not more than twenty parts per centum of water, not less than sixty parts per centum of reducing-sugars, and it shall not yield more than three-fourths of one part per centum of ash. It shall not contain added sugar or glucose, artificial sweetening-substance, added colouring-matter, or any other foreign substance.