BORIC IN BUTTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17995, 28 June 1928, Page 5

BORIC IN BUTTER.

DAIRY COMPANY FINED. By T.loyr^ph —Vinu INVERCARGILL, June 27. Further prosecutions arising out of the sale of butter which did not comply with the regulations of the Food and Drugs Act, were conducted on behalf of the Inspector of Health in the Police Court this morning. The first ease was against the Lochiel Co-operative Dairy Company, for having butter for sale containing boric acid, the addition of which is forbidden by new regulations under the Act. Analysis showed that one sample contained 30.2 grains per pound of preservative. The amount in the other was much smaller, one test showing none. The factory in the ordinary course, manufactured cheese, and this was whey butter sold to suppliers of milk. The Magistrate said that it was reasonable to make a little allowance in view of the new regulations, but in any case ,the defendant company had been exceeding the limit allowed before, which was 20 grains. It had to be considered, too, that only milk suppliers who preferred preservatised butter, were getting it. and the general public were not being taken down in any way. A fine of £1 was imposed. The second case was against the Invercargill Milk Supply Company, for having on sale butter containing a greater percentage of water than

is allowed by the Act. Two charges were preferred in respect of one sample containing 16.16 per cent, of water, ancl another containing 16.09 per cent, of wafer, the maximum legal percentage being 16. The Magistrate dismissed the case as trifling.