§ 83. Mr. C. BATHURSTasked the President of the Local Government Board if his attention has been called to a case, which came last month before the magistrates at the Nottingham Summons Court, in which proceedings were taken against the Farmers and Cleveland Dairy Company, Limited, for selling cream containing formalin as a preservative, contrary to the Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912, and in which the magistrates declined to convict the defendants on the technical ground that no penalty had been prescribed by law in the event of the contravention of such Regulations, but only for wilful refusal to obey them; and whether he proposes to take any and, if any, what action in the matter to prevent such Regulations proving abortive in future?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELMy attention had not previously been drawn to this case. I am making inquiries with regard to it.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he does not realise that of all preservations of cream formaldehyde is the most innocuous to human health?