§ 26. Mr. RICKARDSasked the Minister of Health whether the new process of adding germicide to milk for destroying bacteria has been brought to his notice; whether he will have the process tested and investigated; and consider whether any modification of the Food and Drugs Adulteration Act would be required to permit of milk so treated being sold on a commercial scale?
§ Sir K. WOODI have recently been informed of a claim to the discovery of a new germicide for milk, but I have no knowledge of its composition and no sample has been supplied to my Department. The addition of any germicide to milk would be contrary to the provisions of the Preservatives Regulations and the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, and 480 for the reasons set out in the report of the Departmental Committee on Preservatives in Food I could not contemplate any amendment of the law in this respect.
§ Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWNIn view of the report of the Milk Reorganisation Commission, that the Food and Drugs Act should be amended in various particulars, will not my right hon. Friend include this matter with other recommendations when this Act is reviewed?