1906.] 



Report on the Butter Trade. 



301 



1. That Inspectors of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction 

 for Ireland, should have power to enter any premises where 

 they have reasonable grounds for believing that butter is made,, 

 blended, re-worked, treated by any process, adulterated, or 

 stored. 



2. That premises where butter is blended, or re-worked, or 

 treated by any process, or where abnormal butter is habitually 

 produced, shall be registered with the local authority of the 

 district as a butter factory. 



3. That no fat, other than butter fat, and no vegetable or 

 other oils, nor any substance capable of being used as an 

 adulterant of butter should be brought into or stored or allowed 

 to be in any registered butter factory. 



4. That no substance be added to butter whereby the per- 

 centage of moisture in the butter is increased. 



5. That the addition to butter at any stage of the process of 

 manufacture of any fat not derived from milk be expressly and 

 directly prohibited. 



6. That margarine, when sold by retail, should be handed to 

 the purchaser in a wrapper on which the word " Margarine " 

 shall be printed in black solid capital letters, not less than half 

 an inch square, and if more than one wrapper is applied to the 

 margarine, the word " Margarine " shall be printed as above on 

 the inner wrapper ; that no fancy name or description should be 

 permitted which refers to butter or anything connected with 

 the dairy industry ; that the outside wrapper, as well as the 

 inside wrapper, should contain nothing but the word " Mar- 

 garine" in type as aforesaid ; and if any fancy name is printed 

 on any other wrapper the word " Margarine " should be suffixed 

 or affixed to the fancy name in letters of the same size, colour, 

 and type as those in which the fancy name is printed. 



7. That no margarine made in any margarine factory shall, 

 when the process of manufacture is complete, contain more than 

 16 per cent, of water, and no margarine shall be imported con- 

 taining more than 16 per cent, of moisture. 



8. That premises where margarine is re-worked or submitted 

 to any process shall be registered as margarine factories. 



9. That Sub-section 3 of Section 20 of the Sale of Food and 



