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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY
Ghee.
Where the proportion of water in a sample of ghee exceeds 1 per cent, it shall be
presumed for the purposes of the Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918, until the
contrary is proved, that the ghee is not genuine by reason of the excessive amount of water
therein.
REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION (20), SUB-PARAGRAPH ( d).
(1) Notice of an addition, admixture or deficiency, shall be given to the purchaser of
any article of food in the manner described below.
(2) In every advertisement, price list or trade list such food shall be described as a food
containing an addition, admixture or deficiency, the maximum amount of such addition,
admixture or deficiency shall be given, and in no such document shall any words be contained
which might imply that the food is pure.
(3) Every package, receptacle, vessel or parcel containing a food which is not pure by
reason of any addition, admixture or deficiency shall be labelled with an adhesive label,
hereafter referred to as the declaratory label, which shall be in the form and contain the
information indicated in the labels set out in the schedule to these regulations. Such
information shall be printed in black type of not less size than that shown in the said labels,
upon a white ground in the centre of the declaratory label, and nothing else shall be printed
on the declaratory label, except that the name of the food, the nature of the adulterant or
deficiency, and the maximum amount per cent of such adulterant or deficiency shall be stated
on the label in the appropriate position. The declaratory label shall be clearly visible to
the purchaser and shall measure at least 2 inches by 4 inches in the case of a declaratory
label printed in one language, and at least 4 inches by 4 inches in the case of a declaratory
label printed in more than one language.
(4) Unless the vendor of a food containing an addition, admixture, or deficiency, knows
of his own knowledge that the purchaser is able to read and understand the declaratory
label, he shall give to the purchaser the information contained in the declaratory label by
word of mouth, at the time of purchase.
(5) The declaratory label shall be printed in the language or languages prescribed in
the schedule to these regulations.
Schedule to the Regulations made under section (20), sub-section ( d).
A.— Declaratory Label (English.)
THIS
( a )
contains an admixture of not more than
( b )
per cent of
( c )
(a) Here insert the name of the food.
(b) Here insert the maximum amount of adulterant which may be present, or the
maximum amount of any deficiency.
(c) Here insert the name of the adulterant, or the name of the ingredient which is
deficient.
Where the context demands it the words " contains an admixture of " shall be replaced
by the words " contains an addition of " or " is deficient of."
B.—The declaratory label shall be printed in the language or languages as follows
:—
In Madras City
...
... English and Tamil.
REGULATIONS WHICH IT IS SUGGESTED SHOULD BE MADE UNDER THE
AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT SHOWN IN APPENDIX (A).
Under section (20) ( f), Regulation (A)—(1) No person shall add any colouring matter,
or water, or any dried or condensed milk or any fluid reconstituted therefrom or any
skimmed milk or separated milk to milk intended for sale, and no person shall, either by
himself or by any servant or agent, sell or offer or expose for sale, any milk to which any such
addition has been made.
(2) No person either by himself or any servant or agent, shall sell or offer or expose
for sale, as milk any liquid in the making of which dried milk or condensed milk has been
used.