FOOD AND DRUGS ACT
DETERMINATION OF STANDARD A MAGISTRATE’S RULING. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 19. A judgment of importance to chemists and to all who sell goods covered hy the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, was delivered by Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day. A regulation made under that Act and gazetted in 1924 prescribes that drugs which are included in the latest edition, with the amendment, of the .British Pharmacopoeia shall conform with the descriptions and tests respectively piescribed ‘ therein, unless otherwis# standardised; and Mr Page’s decision was that the words “ latest edition ” meant the latest editions at the time the regulations were made, and that accordingly the standard required in New Zealand for drugs is that prescribed by the 1914 edition. , . “If it is considered desirable to adopt in New Zealand the standard for drugs prescribed in the new 19,32 edition a regulation to that effect can be made, added the magistrate. . J The defendant was Frank Rathbone, grocer, and the substance was liquid paraffin. It was held that no offence had been committed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22293, 20 June 1934, Page 8
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