2028
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act amended.—
(H.F. and D. 80.)

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1930.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend, in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the same month at page 1505 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”), and the regulations made on the twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-fourth day of the same month at page 504.

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SCHEDULE.

1. CLAUSE (2) of Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph :—
   “ (d) In the case of drugs sold for internal use the dose recommended.”

2. Clause (2) of Regulation 9 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “sixteen ounces,” the words “or twenty-four ounces.”

3. Clause (5) of Regulation 10 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding thereto the following :—
   “ Provided that it shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the presence of a permitted preservative in a cordial or syrup included in these regulations if the word “preservatized,” in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less size than ten points face measurement, be written prominently on the label.”

4. Paragraph (3) of Regulation 14 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding, after the words “for sale thereon,” the words “provided such foods are not subject to special labelling provisions in these regulations.”

5. Regulation 31 of the principal regulations as set out in Regulation 2 of the regulations made as aforesaid on the 21st day of February, 1927, is hereby amended by adding at the end of clause (2) thereof the words “except in the case of baking powder containing also a proportion of cream of tartar.”

6. Clause (2) of Regulation 32 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking subclause (b) thereof and substituting therefor the following :—
   “ (b) (i) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing baking powder the name or names of the acid material or materials employed in the manufacture of the baking powder, and where two or more names are available for one or more of the substances the name or names most commonly in use shall be given.
   “ (ii) When one acid material is employed such name shall be written in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less than twelve points face measurement in the following form :
   ‘ Prepared with [Here state the name of the acid material.] ’
   “ (iii) When more than one acid material is employed such names shall be written with equal prominence, and shall be followed immediately by a statement showing the parts per centum of each such acid material in terms of the total quantity of acid material employed, in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less than twelve points face measurement in the following form, as for example —
   “ ‘ Prepared with—
   Cream of Tartar .. .. .. 60
   Acid Sodium Phosphate .. .. .. 40 ’ ”

7. Regulation 47 of the principal regulations is hereby amended as follows :—
   (1) By revoking clause (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following :—
   “ CHEESE.
   “ 47. (1) 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 or of seasoning substances, salt, and harmless vegetable colouring matter. It shall contain in the water-free substance not less than forty-eight parts per centum of fats wholly derived from milk, and it shall not contain any foreign fat.”
   (2) By adding thereto the following clause :—
   “ Process Cheese.
   “ (6) (a) Process cheese shall be cheese to which has been added not more than three parts per centum of a harmless emulsifying substance.”

“ Labelling.
“ (b) In the label attached to every package containing process cheese shall be written the statement ‘This process cheese contains not more than three parts per centum of a harmless emulsifying substance,’ or if the cheese is sold from bulk or otherwise than in a package there shall be exhibited in a manner clearly discernible to the purchaser a notice attached to the bulk supply bearing the statement as aforesaid, written in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less than twenty-four points face measurement in such colour as to afford a distinct contrast to the ground colour of the notice.”

8. Regulation 86 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor :—

“ DISINFECTANTS, GERMICIDES, AND ANTISEPTICS.
“ 86 (1) For the purpose of this regulation the words ‘disinfectant’ and ‘germicide’ and ‘antiseptic’ shall each mean any substance or compound which in any label or statement accompanying it is said to be capable of killing or of preventing the development of the germs of disease.

“ Labelling.
“ (2) There shall be written on the label attached to every package which contains or purports to contain a disinfectant or germicide or antiseptic—
“ (i) In bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less than six point face measurement the word ‘Disinfectant’ or the word ‘Germicide’ or the word ‘Antiseptic’; and
“ (ii) Explicit information as to the purposes to which the contents may be put; and
“ (iii) The strength or proportion of the substance, and the method of use recommended as being effective for each such purpose in destroying or preventing the development of the germs of disease.
“ (3) The word ‘Medical’ or the word ‘Surgical’ or a word of similar purport alone or in combination with the word ‘disinfectant’ or ‘germicide’ or ‘antiseptic’ shall not appear on the label attached to any package containing a disinfectant or germicide or antiseptic unless the substance in such package complies with the following conditions :—
“ (i) The substance shall be readily miscible with water by the formation of a fine emulsion or otherwise; and
“ (ii) When five volumes of the substance are diluted to one hundred volumes with water the diluted fluid shall have an efficiency for killing the organisms Bacillus Typhosus and Bacillus Coli equal to or greater than the efficiency of a solution prepared by diluting five volumes of liquefied carbolic acid B.P. to one hundred volumes with water.”
“ (4) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing a disinfectant or germicide or antiseptic, five volumes of which when diluted to one hundred volumes with water has a less efficiency for killing the organisms Bacillus Typhosus and Bacillus Coli than a solution prepared by diluting five volumes of liquefied carbolic acid B.P. to one hundred volumes with water, the declaration in bold-faced sans serif capital letters of not less than eight points face measurement :—
“ ‘Not equivalent to Carbolic Acid.’
“ (5) Every statement as to the use or strength or proportion recommended for any purpose appearing on the label attached to any disinfectant or germicide or antiseptic shall be made in accordance with the conditions laid down in Regulation 3 of the principal regulations.”

9. Regulation 5 of the regulations made as aforesaid on the 21st day of February, 1927, is hereby amended as follows :—
   (1) All the words preceding “ (b) Second-grade soap ” in clause (1) are revoked and the following substituted therefor :

“ SOAP.
“ Domestic or Household Soap.
“ 5. (1) Unless otherwise standardized in these regulations, soap for human use shall be sold only in some one of the