If the person contravening the provisions of these regulations was licensed for the importation of any article of food, the director of public health, with the approval of the ministry of interior, may suspend his license for a definite period not exceeding one year or cancel such licenses.

ART. 27. Regulations No. 13 of 1930 are hereby repealed.

ART. 29. The minister of interior is charged with the execution of these regulations.

SCHEDULE I

THE USE OF PRESERVATIVES AND COLORING MATTERS IN ARTICLES OF FOOD

1. No preservative shall be added to any article of food except benzoic acid and sulphurous acid and their salts, and these only in such quantities as may, from time to time, be determined by the director of public health.

2. The following coloring matters shall not be added to articles of food:

(a) Metallic coloring matters which are compounds of any of the following metals: Antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead, zinc.

(b) Vegetable coloring matter: Gamboge.

(c) Coal-tar colors as follows: Picric acid, Victoria yellow or dinitrocresol, Manchester yellow or naphthol yellow or Martius yellow, aurantia or imperial yellow; Aurine or rosolic acid or yellow corallin.

SCHEDULE II

THE PROCEDURE FOR THE TAKING OF SAMPLES OF FOOD FOR ANALYSIS

1. The quantities of the samples purchased shall in general be at least such an amount that one-third of it is sufficient for the purpose of analysis.

2. After the purchase is completed, the purchasing officer shall forthwith notify the seller or his agent or servant selling the article of his intention to have the same analyzed by the government analyst, and shall divide the article into three parts as nearly equal as possible, to be there and then separated, and shall mark and seal each part in such manner as its nature will permit, and shall offer one part to the seller or his agent or servant. He shall then send one part to the chemical examiner and shall retain one part for production at the prosecution if required.

3. If the seller or his agent or servant refuse to accept one part, the remainder of the procedure shall nevertheless be carried out as to the other two parts.

4. Where an article of food is exposed for sale in an unopened tin or package duly labeled, no person shall be compelled to sell it except in the unopened tin or package in which it is contained.

5. In the case of articles of food of a fluid or partly fluid nature, the purchasing officer shall, before dividing the article into three parts, cause the contents to be so mixed by stirring or shaking for a sufficient time that any visible or invisible sediment, precipitate, or segregated portion of the article may be deemed to be uniformly distributed or incorporated in each part.