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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS 

 ACT, 1908, AFFECTING HONEY. 



Containers. 



Containers used for keeping or holding jams, syrups, honey, condensed milk, 

 soups, meat-extracts, meats, undried fruits and vegetables or other moist food 

 substances, and wrappers in contaclfwith such food substances, shall not contain 

 in the surfaces which come into contact with the food any lead, antimony, zinc, 

 arsenic, or copper, or any compounds thereof, or any poisonous or injurious sub- 

 stance. If the container is made of tinplate it shall be outside-soldered, and the 

 said surfaces shall be free from pin-holes, blisters, cracks, or other defects. If the 

 tinplate is lacquered the lacquer shall completely cover the tinned surface without 

 the container. The container shall yield to its contents no lead, antimony, arsenic, 

 zinc, or copper, or any compounds thereof, or any other poisonous or injurious 

 substance. 



Honey 



Honey shall be the nectar and sacchanne exudations of plants, gathered, 

 modified, and stored by the honey-bee ; it shall contain not more than twenty 

 parts per centum of water, not less than sixty parts per centum of reducing- 

 sugars, and it shall not yield more than three-fourths of one part per centum of 

 ash. It shall not contain any added sugar or glucose, artificial sweetening- 

 substance, added colouring-matter, or other foreign substance. 



By Authority : Marcus F. Marks, Government Printer, Wellington. 



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