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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 24

Cream substitutes.

24.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not sell, or
offer or expose for sale, for human consumption

(a)any substance which resembles cream in appearance, but is not cream; or

(b)any article of food containing such a substance;

(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to the sale, or offer or exposure for
sale, of any substance being reconstituted or imitation cream as defined by
this section, or of any article containing such a substance, under a
description or designation which identifies the substance as such, or to the
sale, or offer or exposure for sale, of any substance under a description or
designation which indicates that the substance is not for use as, or as a
substitute for, cream.

(3) A person who contravenes sub-section (1) shall be guilty of an offence
under this Act.

(4) For the purposes of this section, the description or designation under
which a substance or article is sold, or offered or exposed for sale, shall be
deemed to include the word "cream" if it includes any other word (composite or
otherwise) which is calculated to lead a purchaser to suppose that the
substance is or, as the case may be, the article contains either cream or a
substance for use as cream.

(5) In this section

"reconstituted cream" means a substance which, not being cream, resembles
cream in appearance and contains no ingredient not derived from milk, except

(a)water; or

(b)ingredients (not added fraudulently to increase bulk, weight or measure, or
conceal inferior quality) which may lawfully be contained in a substance sold
for human consumption as cream or butter;

"imitation cream" means a substance which, not being cream or
reconstituted cream, resembles cream in appearance and is produced by
emulsifying edible oils or fats with water, either by themselves, or with
other substances not prohibited by regulations made for the purposes of this
section under section four, nor added in quantities so prohibited.

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