314 MILK AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH chap. 



committed under this section under certain contingencies which 

 hardly affect milk. 



Section 8. " Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such 

 offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a 

 drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, 

 and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, weight, or 

 measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering 

 such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the 

 same a notice by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on 

 or with the article or drug to the effect that the same is mixed." 



Section 9. "No person shall, with the intent that the same may 

 be sold in its altered state without notice, abstract from an article 

 of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, 

 or nature, and no person shall sell any article so altered without 

 making disclosure of the alteration, under a penalty in each case 

 not exceeding £20." 



THE SALE OF FOOD AND DEUGS ACT AMENDMENT 



ACT, 1879 



Section 3. Provides that any medical officer of health, inspector 

 of nuisances, inspector of weights and measures, any market in- 

 spector or police constable, may procure at the place of delivery a 

 sample of milk in course of delivery to submit to analysis. 



Section 4. Enacts a penalty of £10 for refusal to allow such 

 milk to be taken. 



THE SALE OF FOOD AND DEUGS ACT, 1899 



Section 1. Makes it an offence to import into the United 

 Kingdom " condensed, separated, or skimmed milk, except in tins or 

 other receptacles which bear a label whereon the words ' Machine- 

 skimmed Milk ' or ' Skimmed Milk,' as the case may require, are 

 printed in large and legible type." 



Section 2. Provides for the sampling of any article of food by 

 an officer of the Local Government Board or Board of Agriculture 

 for the purpose of analysis. 



Section 3. Makes it the duty of every local authority entrusted 

 with the execution of the laws relating to the sale of food and 

 drugs to put in force these powers so as to provide proper securities 

 for the sale of food and drugs in a pure and genuine condition. 

 The Local Government Board or Board of Agriculture can act in 

 default. 



Sectinn 4. Gives the Board of Agriculture power to make 

 regulations for determining what deficiency in any of the normal 

 constituents of genuine milk, cream, butter, or cheese, or what 



