A BUTTER BILL.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 198, 22 February 1907, Page 2

A BUTTER BILL.

♦ [IIV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, February 21. A Butter Bill has been introduced into the Imperial Parliament. It provides for the registration and inspection of factories where butter is blended, re-worked, or substitutes are made. It empowers the Board of Agriculture authorities to enter unregistered premises, if in their belief inspection is desiirable. It limits the amount of moisture to 16 per cent in butter and margarine, whether home made or imported, and 24 per cent in butter substitutes. The latter must be delivered to the purchaser in a wrapper bearing a printed description of the article. The penalty for the first offence under the Act is a fine of £20; the second a fine not exceeding £50, and for the third and subsequent offences fines not exceeding £100, with imprisonment in cases which come within the scope of the Food and Drugs Act. «.