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THE Minister of Health has issued a circular to local authorities and public analysts on the new Food and Drugs Act passed last July, which comes into force next October (Circular 1755. H.M. Stationery Office. 2d. net). This Act represents a great simplification of existing food and drugs law, some of which dates back to the sixteenth century, and opportunity has been taken to introduce, into the general law, provisions which have up to now been included only in Local Acts. Among new provisions which will become enforceable are the registration by local authorities of premises used for the sale or manufacture of ice cream and the preparation or manufacture of sausages or preserved food. Ice cream vendors must have their names and addresses on stalls, carts and barrows, and this requirement may be extended to all or any foods by the local authority. Slaughterhouses and knacker's yards will all in future be licensed for limited periods only, and new requirements are laid down as regards rooms, yards, etc., in which food is sold or prepared for sale.
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The Food and Drugs Act, 1938. Nature 143, 197 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143197c0
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