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Unsound food. Extensive powers for the inspection and seizure of unsound food are given by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 116-119, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, s. 47. By sub-s. 4 of the latter Act the seller of unsound food may be ordered, upon a second conviction, to affix a notice of the facts upon his premises; and under this section. proceedings may be taken by a private individual, Giebler v. Manning, (1906) 1 KB 709. As to the position of a wholesale butcher when unsound meat is seized while in the possession of the retailer to whom he sold it, see Grivell v. Malpas, (1906) 2 KB 32, and as to the power of a butcher to obtain compensation when a prosecution results in an acquittal, see Hobbs v. Winchester Corporation, (1910) 2 KB 471. Compare the title ADULTERATION....
Meat
Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Butcher
Butcher, a person who carries on the trade of killing animals, or of selling the flesh of such animals, for human consumption. No license is required, neither are any special regulations applicable. See, however, SLAUGHTER HOUSES; UNSOUND FOOD....
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