CHEMICAL IN MEAT
DETRIMENTAL TO DIGESTION PROSECUTIONS IN CHRISTCHURCH (Bv T*»lesrrar>h.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday Four butchers were each lined 10s by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., to-day in cases in which the defendants were charged \x«th selling mince meat which contained more than the permissable amount of sulphur dioxide—3.s grains to the pound. T. Pargiter. of the Health Department, said a report to the department from Johannesburg drawing attention to the detrimental effect to digestion due to the surplus of sulphur dioxide in meat led to investigations around Christchurch. Out of 44 tests 11 failed to comply with the regulations. "The department looks upon it as
a serious affair that we should have lo consume all this mummified food,'’ he said.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20714, 26 January 1939, Page 5
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