CHARGES AGAINST MILK VENDORS
DISMISSED OH TECHNICAL POINT
[Per United Press Association.]
DANNEVIRKE, November 8. Two local milk vendors were recently charged with selling milk that did not comply with the standard prescribed hy regulation 42 under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, in that it contained less than <“)* per cent, of milk fat—to wit, only 2.80 per cent, of fat. Mr E. Gibhard, counsel for defendants, raised the technical defence that the inspector who purchased samples did not inform defendants that he intended to have the samples analysed by an analyst, as provided by section 7| (1) of the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, 1903. The magistrate (Mr Free) upheld the contention in his reserved judgment, and, in dismissing the informations remarked: “The only safe course for an inspector when taking samples for the purpose of analysis is to inform the seller, or his agent selling the article, before or forthwith after procuring it that he intends to have the same analysed by an analyst appointed under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act* ISOS.’-’
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Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5
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178CHARGES AGAINST MILK VENDORS Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5
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