Report upon the law relating to the adulteration of food and suggestions as to its amendment / by Charles Alfred Swinburne.

  • Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Report upon the law relating to the adulteration of food and suggestions as to its amendment / by Charles Alfred Swinburne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EEPOBT UPON THE f afo dating to % tpultcration of Jfooir, AND SUGGESTIONS AS TO ITS AMENDMENT. In accordance with the resolution passed at the Meeting of the General Committee of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Asso¬ ciation, of the 30tli of May last, I have prepared and submit for the consideration of the Committee the following remarks as to the state of the law relating to the Adulteration of Food, and suggestions as to its amendment. It will, I think, be admitted by all who have directed their attention to the subject, that the law, as it now stands, is inadequate to meet the serious evil resulting from the adulteration of articles of food and drink which now exists, and which presses so hardly and injuriously upon all classes of society, and more especially upon that class least able to bear it. The fact of such an evil existing calls for a speedy and effectual remedy, and it behoves all associations like this, and, in fact, all who take an interest in the welfare of the people, and par¬ ticularly that vast portion constituting the working classes, to use their best endeavours to remedy an evil, which, in all cases, is a fraud upon, and, when detrimental to the health, a serious injury to the subject.