PURE FOOD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 11, 12 July 1912, Page 10

PURE FOOD

i WORK OF THE HEALTH j - I DEPARTMENT. Before the Cost of Living Commission yesterday afternoon, Dr. Frengley, Medical Secretary of the Department of Public Health and Hospitals, said that regulations were gazetted' in 1808 giving the standards for various food supplies and milk. In 1908 other regulations were passed concerning the labelling and manufacture of jam, and. in 1910, also regulating the standards for butter and cheese. The analysis was performed mainly at Wellington, though there were officers to do the work at Christchurch and Auckland. Altogether 2538 investigations had been made into milk samples", 365 samples of bread had been _obtamed, mainly for short-weight ; other samples d<&lt with numbered 225. His department was now in a better position to control the food supplies than it had yet been. A new set of regulations was to_ be submitted; to the Minister for approval. Dr. Frengley gave details of tho progressive work of the department in. this direction. As the result of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, food really become cheaper to the people, because they got pure articles instead of goods adulterated with materials which gave it bulk, but reduced its strength— as, for instance, in the adulteration of pepper with flour or ground rice.