Regulations under "The Food and Drugs Act, 1908".

  • South Australia
Date:
1915
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Regulations under "The Food and Drugs Act, 1908". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) No package, container, or appliance shall yield to its food contents any poisonous or injurious substance. (3) If the package or container be made of tin plate, it shall, if soldered, be outside soldered ; and if the tin plate be lacquered, the lacquer shall completely cover the tinned surface within the container. (4) Exemption from compliance with the provisions of this regula- tion may be granted in cases where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Central Board of Health that contamination of the food when ready for sale does not result from the presence of such metals in the surfaces in contact with the foods. 5.—POISONOUS METALS IN FOODS. No food substance shall contain any antimony, arsenic, lead, tin, or other poisonous metals, or compound of any of them. It shall not be a contravention of this regulation if the food substance specified in the following list contains not more than the quantities of the metals or their compounds specified in each case: Provided that such metals or compounds are unavoidably present in the food substance :— Arsenic, calculated Tin, ac Geninalat Lead, calculated as lation. Food Substance. Arsenious Oxide, Grains of the Graing at AsiOo. Mets}: the Metal. 13 | Cream of tartar ... | 1-100th perlb. | 1-7th per lb. = Nil — 14 | Baking powder .... | 1-100th perlb. | 1-7th perlb. .. Nil 15 | Custard powder ... | 1-100th perlb. | 1-7th perlb. .. Nil 18 | Malt and malt pre- | 1-100th perlb. | 1-7th perlb. .. . Nil preparations inclu- ded in regulation 18 Ae 20 | Vegetables (in tins) . Nil Nil 2 per Ib. 24 | Milk and milk pro- Nil | Nil 2 per Ib. ducts (hermetically sealed in tins) 36. Bamces i) is ofc ye ees 1-100th per pint | 1-7th per pint | 2 per pint 37 | Vinegars. bese 1-100th per pint | 1-7th per pint | 2 per pint 40 i Bicklesi . os) eat '1-100th per lb. | 1-7th perlb. .. | 2 per lb. 41°) Glucose.” Sete evens /1-100th perlb. |1-7th perlb. .. Nil 42 1) HONOYs ger. coos « Nil 1-7th perlb. .. | 2 per lb. 47 | Fruit and fruit pro- | Nil Nil 2 per lb. ducts contained in | tins | 50 | Citric and tartaric 1-100th perlb, | 1-7th perlb. .. Nil acids | 60 | Non-excisable fer- Nil 1-100th per gall. Nil mented drinks | 61 | Summer or “‘ Tem- Nil 1-100th per gall. Nil perance ” drinks 67 | Ale and beer ...... 1-100th per gall. ‘Nil Nil — | Other food in tins .. Nil \ Nil 2 per lb,