1544
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 44

(2.) Drugs which are not included in the latest edition with amendments of the “British Pharmacopoeia” but which are included in the latest edition of the “British Pharmaceutical Codex” shall conform to the descriptions and tests respectively prescribed for them in the said Codex, unless otherwise standardized in these regulations, or in any Act in force in New Zealand, or in regulations made thereunder.

Exemptions from Standard.

(3.) (a.) The following drugs are hereby exempted from so much of the provisions of these regulations as require that they shall be compounded with alcohol, in accordance with the “British Pharmacopoeia,” and the said drugs shall not be deemed to be adulterated in so far as they are compounded with such equivalent proportions of methylated spirit as may be permitted by regulations under the Customs Act, 1913:—

Linimentum aconiti.
Linimentum belladonnae.
Linimentum camphorae ammoniatum.
Linimentum crotonis.
Linimentum opii.
Linimentum saponis.
Linimentum sinapis.

(b.) In any preparation intended solely for external use, where olive-oil or Arachis oil is indicated in the established standard, cotton-seed (Gossypium herbaceum) oil may be used in lieu thereof.

(c.) In any preparation where wine is used as specified in the established standard, it shall not be deemed to be adulterated in so far as it is compounded with a New Zealand or other colonial wine containing not less than twenty-eight parts per centum of proof spirit.

(d.) The following drug is hereby exempted from so much of the provisions of these regulations as requires that it shall comply with the description given of and tests prescribed for in the latest edition, with amendments, of the “British Pharmacopoeia”:—

Oleum eucalypti.

Ethyl Alcohol in Medicine: Labelling.

(4.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing a proprietary medicine sold for internal use by man, which is compounded with ethylic alcohol in greater proportion than five parts per centum proof spirit, in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters, the percentage proportion of proof spirit contained in it, expressed in the following form:—

ALCOHOL.

“This preparation contains [Here insert the number of parts per centum] parts per centum of proof spirit.”

Castor-oil: Labelling.

(5.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing castor-oil which is sold for internal use by man, in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than eight points face-measurement, the words “For internal use.”

Eucalyptus-oil.

(6.) (a.) Eucalyptus-oil prepared for internal use or inhalation by man is the essential oil distilled from the leaves of one or more species of Eucalyptus. It shall not contain more than a trace of aldehydes having a boiling-point below 120° C.

Labelling.

(b.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package which contains eucalyptus-oil a statement of the composition of the oil in the following form:—

This eucalyptus-oil contains phellandrene and [The words “phellandrene and” are to be omitted if phellandrene be not present] not less than [Here insert the number of parts per centum] parts per cent. of eucalyptol.

Provided that this declaration shall not be required when the oil either—

(1.) Conforms to the “British Pharmacopoeia” standard, and is labelled accordingly; or