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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 
Report of the Departmental Commuttee on Milk and Cream 
Regulations. (Cd. 491. Price 74d.) 
This is the Report of the Departmental Committee 
appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire and report 
as to what regulations, if any, may with advantage be 
made by the Board under Section 4 of the Sale of Food and 
Drugs Act, 1899, for determining what deficiency in any of 
the normal constituents of genuine milk or cream, or what 
addition of extraneous matter or proportion of water, in any 
sample of milk (including condensed milk) or cream, shall 
for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 
1899, raise a presumption, until the contrary is proved, that 
the milk or cream is not genuine. The Committee consisted 
of the following members: Lord Wenlock (Chairman), Mr. 
G. Barham, Mr. G. Cowan, Major P. G. Craigie, Mr. S. W. 
Farmer, Mr. Shirley F. Murphy, Professor Thorpe, ¥.R.S. 
and Mr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Ph.D. The report of the 
majority, which is signed by seven of the members of the 
Committee, contains the following principal recommenda 
tions :— 
Gj) That regulations under Section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1899, be 
made by the Board of Agriculture with respect to milk (including con- 
densed milk) and cream. 
(u) (a) That in the case of any milk (other than skimmed, separated, or condensed 
. milk) the total milk-solids in which, on being dried at 100 degrees 
Centigrade, do not amount to 12 per cent., a presumption shall be 
raised, until the contrary is proved, that the milk is deficient in the 
normal constituents of genuine milk. 
(0) That any milk (other than skimmed, separated, or condensed milk), the 
total milk-sclids in which are less than 12 per cent., and in which the 
amount of milk-fat is less than 3°25 per cent.. shall be deemed to be so 
deficient in milk-fat as to raise a presumption, unti! the contrary is 
proved, that it has been mixed with separated milk or water, or that 
some portion of its normal content of milk-fat has been removed. In 
