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REPORT OF THE PUBLIC ANALYST TO GOVERNMENT
APPENDIX B.
MADRAS ACT No. II OF 1928.
An Act to amend the Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918.
Madras Act
III of 1918.
Madras Act
III of 1918.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918 ; It is
hereby enacted as follows :—
1. This Act may be called the Madras Prevention of Adulteration
(Amendment) Act, 1927.
2. In section 2 of the Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918 (hereinafter
referred to as the said. Act), after the definition of "food" the
Amendment of section
2 of Madras Act III of following definitions shall be inserted, namely :—
1918.
" 'Milk' means the normal clean secretion drawn from the udder of a healthy cow or
buffalo either completely, or, after the first portion of such secretion has been drawn off, to
completion."
" 'Cream' means that portion of milk rich in milk-fat which has risen to the surface
of milk on standing and has been removed or which has been separated from milk by
centrifugal force."
Preamble.
Short title.
Amendment of section
5 of Madras Act III of
1918.
3. In section 5 of the said Act,—
(a) in sub-section (1)—
(i) for the words "manufactures for sale or offers for sale "the words" manufac
-tures, stores or offers for sale" shall be substituted ;
(ii) for clause (d) the following clause shall be substituted, namely :
—
"( d) offers for sale or hawks about or sells milk, cream, butter, ghee, cheese
or any food which is not up to the standard of purity prescribed by the Local Govern
- m e n t " ; a n d
(iii) in paragraph (iii) of the proviso, for the words "Governor in Council" the
words "Local Government" shall be substituted ; and
( b) in sub-section (2), for the words "who is in the habit of manufacturing like
articles of food, has been manufactured for sale" the following shall be substituted,
namely :—
"who is in the habit of manufacturing or storing like articles for sale, has been
manufactured or stored by such person for sale."
Amendment of section
20 of Madras Act III of
1918.
4. In section 20 of the said Act
—
(i) In clause (e ), for the words "ghee and cheese" the words "ghee, cheese and
any food" and for the words "ghee or cheese" the words "ghee, cheese or any food''
shall respectively be substituted ;
(ii) after clause ( e ) the following clauses shall be inserted, namely :
—
"( f) prohibiting or regulating in the interests of public health
—
(i) the addition of water or other diluent or adulterant to any food ;
(ii) the abstraction of any ingredient from any food ; and
(iii) the sale of any food to which such addition or from which such abstraction
has been made or which has been otherwise artificially treated ;
"( g ) providing for the manner in which any receptacle containing dried,
condensed, skimmed or separated milk is to be labelled or marked;
"(h ) authorizing the persons taking samples of any food for the purpose of
analysis under this Act to add preservatives to such sample for the purpose of maintaining it
in a suitable condition for analysis and regulating the nature of such preservatives and the
method of adding them ;
(iii) in the last paragraph for the words, letters and brackets "under clauses ( c)
and ( d) "the words, letters and brackets "under clauses ( c ), ( d), ( f) and ( g)" shall be
substituted.