‘ARCHAIC TERM’
‘Skim Milk’ Powder (N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, July 18. The term “skim milk” which the law forced the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company to brand on its milk powder, was “archaic,” said Mr H. Woolven, the company’s general manager. “This description has been criticised on a number of occasions and we are in complete agreement that the term ‘skim milk’ is now somewhat archaic,” he said. The Food and Drug Regulations, 1946, say that “there shall be written in 48 point lettering across the face of the label in a diagonal line the words ‘skim milk.’” The term was also mandatory in India, Malaysia, ■South Africa and others which have patterned their laws on' those of the United Kingdom, Mr Woolven said. “New Zealand must ensure that it meets the food and drug relations of the countries to which its goods are exported.” Mr Woolven said the American term “non-fat dried milk solids” was a better description.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 6
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