TAINTED MILK
BORIC ACID USED AUCKLAND VENDOR FINED. [Per Press Association, j AUCKLAND, March 30. For the addition of boric acid to milk, Ebenezer Henry Slater was fined £2 and costs £3 3s at the Police Court. Mr Hubble said Slater supplied the City Tea-rooms with milk. Samples were obtained from there by an inspector and an analysis showed the milk contained boric acid. There was a sweet taste, although it was really bad milk. But for the presence of the boric acid, it would have been bad to
Air Burt, counsel for defendant, said that Slater had only three customers, and the quantity of boric acid added was infinitesimal, being only about one spoonful in ten gallons of milk. Before Slater entered into the milk business, he was interested in butter-fat, and at that time it was permissible to add boric acid to butter. Defendant was unaware of the regulation prohibiting the use of acid in milk. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and if a man enters business, he should make himself conversant with the regulations,” said Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in imposing the penaii .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 8
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189TAINTED MILK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 8
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