THE FOOD LAWS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND 

 THEIR ADMINISTRATION. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 LIST OP ENGLISH FOOD LAWS. 



The food and drugs act of the United States, enacted June 30, 1906, 

 lea Is not only with foods and drugs which enter interstate com- 

 lerce or are sold within the District of Columbia or the Territories, 

 lut also with those products which are either exported or imported. 

 is far as exports are concerned the food law provides: 



(Sec. 2.) That no article shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the 

 visions of this act when intended for export to any foreign country and prepared 

 packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser when 

 |o substance is used in the preparation or packing thereof in conflict with the laws of 

 .e foreign country to which said article is intended to be shipped * * *. 



Food and drug imports coming into the United States are subject 

 examination on the part of the Secretary of Agriculture in order 

 |> determine whether or not they are adulterated or misbranded, 

 .d (sec. 11)- 



* if it, appear from the examination of such samples that any article of food or 

 ig offered to be imported into the United States is adulterated or misbranded within 

 meaning of this act, or is otherwise dangerous to the health of the people of the 

 Jnited States, or is of a kind forbidden entry into, or forbidden to be sold or restricted 

 in the country in which it is made or from which it is exported, or is otherwise 

 Jsely labeled in any respect, the said article shall be refused admission, and the 

 :retary of the Treasury shall refuse delivery to the consignee ' * *. 



If section 11 of our national law is to be strictly enforced a thor- 

 >ugh working knowledge of the foreign food laws and their various 

 fulatioris is necessary. Acquaintance with the methods of admin- 

 'ation is also desirable. The problems are much the same in all 

 mntries where a serious attempt is made to combat the adulteration 

 id misbranding of food and drugs; hence much of value may be 

 -ned by a study of the foreign food laws and their administration. 

 >me of the laws which are in operation now in the United Kingdom 

 >verning the sale of foods date back to the early part of the eight- 

 it h century. However, most of them, and also those covering 

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