Feb., 19511 MINISTRY OF FOOD 119 Ministry of Food STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS* 1950-No. 1764. The Meat Products and Canned Meat (Amendment) Order, 1950. Price Id. This Order, which came into operation on November 5th, 1950, provides that the Meat Products and Canned Meat (Control and Maximum Prices) Order, 1948 (S.I., 1948, No. 1509; Analyst, 1948, 73, 341), as amended by S.I., 1949, Nos. 782, 1303 and 2045, shall be further amended as follows- (a) by substituting for Article 3 thereof the following Article :- A person shall not by way of trade prepare or manufacture or sell or have in his possession for sale any description of specified food mentioned in column 1 of the First Schedule to this Order the meat content of which is less than the minimum meat content prescribed as respects that description in column 2 of the said Schedule: provided that in any proceedings in which a person is charged with an infringement of this Article the Court may disregard any variation in the prescribed minimum meat content of beef sausages, beef sausage meat and beef slicing sausage if the meat content thereof is not less than 473 per cent.or in the case of pork sausages, pork sausage meat and pork slicing sausage if the meat content is not less than 624 per cent.: provided also that any fat of vegetable origin used in the manufacture of beef sausages, beef sausage meat, or beef slicing sausage shall be deemed to be meat for the purpose of assessing the meat content of any of those products, if the total quantity of such fat so used does not exceed 25 per cent.of the prescribed minimum meat content of the product”; by substituting for the First Schedule thereto the First Schedule to this Order; by substituting for Part I11 of the Second Schedule thereto the Second Schedule to this Order. “3. (b) (c) THE FIRST SCHEDULE (To be substituted for the First Schedule to the Meat Products and Canned Meat (Control and Maximum Prices) Order, 1948) MINIMUM MEAT CONTENT OF SPECIFIED FOODS (NOT CANNED) Description of Specified Food Column 1 Column 2 Minimum Meat Content 65 per cent., of which a t least 80 per cent. shall consist of pork. Pork sausages, pork sausage meat, pork slicing sausage . . Beef sausages, beef sausage meat, beef slicing sausage Cooked sausages of the following descriptions :- Luncheon sausage, breakfast sausage and polony .. . . 50 per cent. . . ) 30 per cent. Liver sausage . . . . .. . . .. .. . . 45 per cent. 7 Meat roll or galantine . . . . . . .. ,. . . J (The Second Schedule i s a list of ma’ximum prices.) - No. 1871. The Food Standards (Preserves) (Amendment) (Commencement) Order, 1950. Price Id. This Order, which came into force on November 29th, 1950, provides that the Food Standards (P?<eserves) (Amendment) Ordev, 1950 (S.I., 1950, No. 1056; Analyst, 1950, 75, 503), shall come into force in respect of wholesale sales on January 25th, 1951, and in respect of retail sales on Mary 25th, 1951. The Order came into force on September 25th, 1950, in respect of sales by manufacturers. This Order, which came into operation o n December 17th, 1950, replaces the Feeding Stuffs (Manu- The principal - No.1988. The Feeding Stuffs (Manufacture) Order, 1950. Price 6d. facture) Order, 1949, as amended (S.I., 1949, No. 1067 and S.I., 1950, No. 1540). changes are- (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) ( v i ) The definition of “Animal protein rich substance” does not exclude dried blood. The Order does not apply to food for any birds except pigeons, poultry and game-birds. Formulae are prescribed for National Cattle Food N o . 4 and National Poultry Food No. 3 8 , both of which may now be manufactured by any licensed compounder. The proportions of the ingredients of some compounds have been changed, and the permitted use of certain ingredients in additional compounds has been extended. The method of expressing calcium in the analysis of National compounds has been chavlged; i t i s now expressed as CaO.The permitted substitutes for cod-liver oil are added to. * Obtainable from H.M. Stationery Office. Italics indicate changed wording.120 MINISTRY O:F FOOD [Vol. 76 1951-No. 13. The Food Standards (Ice-Cream) Order, 1951. Price 2d. This Order, which comes into operation on March lst, 1951, should be read with the Food Standards (General Provisions) Order, 1944, as amended (S.R. & O., 1944, Nos. 42 and 654; Analyst, 1944, 69, 49 and 247). STANDARD FOR ICE-CREAM I t prescribes standards for ice-cream, as follows- 1. cent. milk solids other than fat: The standard for ice-cream shall be as follows:- Ice-cream shall contain not less than 5 per cent. fat, 10 per cent. sugar and 7 4 per Provided that- (i) ice-cream containing any fruit, fruit pulp or fruit puree shall either conform to the standard set forth above or, alternatively, the total content of fat, sugar and milk solids other than fat shall be not less than 25 per cent.of the ice-cream, including the fruit, fruit pulp or fruit puree, as the case may be, and such total conteat of fat, sugar and milk solids other than fat shall include not less than 79 per cent. fat, 10 per cent. sugar and 2 per cent. milk solids other than fat; (ii) “Parev” (kosher) ice sold, offered or exposed for sale under that description shall contain not less than 10 per cent. fat and not less than 14 per cent. sugar, and the standard for ice-cream set forth above shall not apply to this product. For the purpose of the standards prescribed above “sugar” means sucrose, invert sugar or the solids of any sweetening material derived from starch so however that no ice- cream shall contain less than 7& per cent. sucrose.Each reference in this Schedule to any proportion or percentage means that proportion or percentage by weight. 2. 3. CIRCULAR P6F 1/51 This circular (price l d . ) , dated January 5th, 1951, received with S.I., 1951, No. 13 (above), refers to it It is intended that the standard shall apply to any products (including those supplied in catering establishments) which are sold as “ice-cream” or “ices,” including products where either of these descriptions is qualified by the mention of a flavour, fjuch as “coffee ice.” The standard is not intended to apply to water ices sold as such, or to “ice lollies.” and points out inter alia that- CIRCULAR lrdF 2/51 This circular (price 2d.), dated January lath, 1951, directs attention to the Defence Regulations (No.8) Order, 1950, which came into operation on December loth, 1950, and which revokes certain Regulations of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1938. Particular attentio9z i s directed to Article 4 of the Order which revokes the provisions af/ecting the use o f borax as a preservative jor imported bacon. Under Regulation 60 C A A of the Defence (General) li’egulations, 1939, certain departures from the Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations weye permitted, among them being the use of borax as a preserving agent in imported bacon. The effect of the present revocation i s to restore the position as it was prior to the operation of Regulation 60 C A A , i.e., the matter is again governed by the provisions of the Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations. NOTICES THE Ministry of Food have informed us of the following- FOOD STANDARDS COMMITTEE The Minister of Food has appointed Mr.Robert Norman Wright, B.Sc., A.R.C.S., to be a member of the Food Standards Committee in succession to Sir. Harry Hague, M.P.S., who has resigned. The Minister has also appointed Dr. E. L. Sturdee, O.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., to be an additional member of the Food Standards Committee. Mr. Wright, who was nominated by the Food Manufacturers’ Federation is a Director of Crosse and Blackwell Limited; Dr. Sturdee is a Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health. REPORT OF THE MANUFACTURED MEAT PRODUCTS WORKING PARTY The Minister of Food, in consultation with the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland, has approved the publication of the Report of the Manufactured Meat Products Working Party. The Report, published on November 22nd, 1950, deals with the hygienic manufacture and with the whole- someness of meat products. Copies may be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office or through any bookseller, price 1s. 3d.