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[接上页] The text of section 3 of L.N. 226 of 2003 is reproduced below-- "3. Transitional provision It shall not be an offence under regulation 5(1) of the Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling ) Regulations (Cap 132 sub. leg. W) ("the principal Regulations") to advertise for sale, sell or manufacture for sale on or before 18 June 2005 any prepackaged food containing any additive which is listed otherwise than by the appropriate category as specified in paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 3 to the principle Regulations as amended by this Regulation in circumstances where that additive is listed by the appropriate category as specified in what would have been paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations had this Regulation not come into operation." The text of section 6 of L.N. 85 of 2004 is reproduced below-- "6. Transitional provision It shall not be an offence under regulation 5(1) of the Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling ) Regulations (Cap 132 sub. leg. W) ("principal Regulations") to advertise for sale, sell or manufacture for sale on or before 9 July 2007 any prepackaged food which is not labelled in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 4 of Schedule 3 to the principle Regulations as amended by this Regulation, if that prepackaged food is labelled in accordance with what would have been the requirements of paragraphs 2 and 4 of Schedule 3 to the principle Regulations had this Regulation not come into operation. (L.N. 139 of 2004)". Cap 132W reg 6 Name in which proceedings may be brought Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Secretary for Justice in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may- (L.N. 362 of 1997) (a) where the offence was committed in respect of drugs, be brought in the name of the Director of Health; (L.N. 76 of 1989) (b) where the offence was committed in respect of food, in the name of the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene. (78 of 1999 s. 7) (c) (Repealed 78 of 1999 s. 7) (L.N. 30 of 1967) Cap 132W reg 7 Compliance with other labelling requirements Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as exempting any person from compliance with any other provisions of the Ordinance which relate to the labelling of food. (L.N. 222 of 1985) Cap 132W Sched 1 [regulation 3] (L.N. 80 of 1996) (In this Schedule reference to proportion or percentage means proportion or percentage by weight) PART I COMPOSITION OF FOODS AND DRUGS OTHER THAN MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS 1. Drugs and ingredients and component parts of drugs shall conform to the standards specified therefor respectively in the British Pharmacopoeia or British Pharmacopoeia Codex. 2. Margarine shall be any article of food, whether mixed with butter or not, which resembles butter and is not milk-blended butter. It shall be free from rancidity and shall contain neither more than 16% moisture nor more than 10% butter fat. 3. Coffee shall be the seed of Coffea arabica and other species of the genus Coffea and shall contain no foreign substances. 4. Lard shall be the clean fat rendered from the meat of the hog. It shall contain not more than 1% of substances other than hog fat unavoidably incorporated with it in the process of rendering, and not more than 1% of water. It shall not contain any foreign substance. 5. Vinegar shall be a liquid derived wholly from alcoholic and acetous fermentations without any intermediate distillation. It shall contain not less than 4.0 grammes of acetic acid in 100 cubic centimetres of the vinegar, and shall not contain any other foreign substance, except caramel. 6. Malt vinegar shall be vinegar as prescribed in item 5, but it shall be derived wholly from malted barley, with or without addition of cereals, the starch of which has been saccharified by the diastase of malt. Nothing prescribed in this item or in item 5 shall apply to Chinese native vinegar sold as such under the names of Chit Ts'o (浙醋), Pak Ts'o (白醋) or Hak Ts'o (黑醋). (L.N. 45 of 1975) 7. Honey shall contain not more than 5% of sucrose. 8. Baking powder shall yield not more than 1.5% of its weight of residual carbon dioxide and not less than 8% of its weight of available carbon dioxide, the weight of residual and available carbon dioxide, respectively, being determined in the following manner- (a) Residual carbon dioxide- A sample of 2 grammes of baking powder shall be treated with 25 millilitres of water and evaporated to dryness on a boiling water bath and subsequently treated with a further 25 millilitres of water and evaporated in like manner. The weight of the residual carbon dioxide is the weight evolved when the sample so treated is further treated with excess of dilute sulphuric acid at room temperature, the evolution being completed either by boiling or by means of reduced pressure. (b) Available carbon dioxide- |