BUTCHERS FINED
EXCESSIVE SULPHUR DIOXIDE IN MINCEMEAT (United Press Association! CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. ! Four outchers were each fined 10s by Mr Levvey, S.M., to-day, in cases in j which the defendants were charged with selling mince-meat which contain--1 cd more than the permissible amount of sulphur dioxide —3.5 grains to the j pound. J Mr T. Pargiter. of the Health Department. said a report to the Department ! from Johannesburg drawing attention ! to the detrimental effect to digestion | due to a surplus of sulphur dioxide in | meat had led to investigations around ! Christchurch. Out of forty-four tests ! eleven had failed to comply with the j regulation. ! “The Department looks upon it as a | serious affair that we should have to consume all this mummified food.” he said. =>
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 8
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