DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

No. R. 1575, 10 September 1971

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1919 (ACT 36 OF 1919)

REGULATION REGARDING FOOD AND WATER VESSELS

The Minister of Health, in the exercise of the powers vested in him by section 155 (k) of the Public Health Act, 1919 (Act 36 of 1919), as amended by section 7 of the General Law Amendment Act, 1971 (Act 80 of 1971), makes the following regulation to be effective from the date of publication hereof:

"No person shall import, sell, have in his possession or use vessels, utensils or other articles intended to contain any food or water or to be used in the preparation or serving of food, which are rusty or defectively soldered or jointed, or are soldered, jointed or coated with, or made of, material containing in any part likely to come into contact with such food or water, any of the substances mentioned in the first column of the following table in such amounts that when the vessel is filled to capacity with a 4 per cent solution of acetic acid and heated on a boiling water bath for half an hour it will yield to the acetic acid solution amounts of such substances in excess of those indicated in the second column: