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ANALYST , in See also:

MODERN

modern times, a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person professionally skilled in chemical See also:

ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis. He may be called upon, in the See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge of his profession, to analyse a wide range of substances. Apart from private practitioners and those engaged in large manufacturing concerns, analysts employed by public bodies are termed public analysts. In most large manufacturing establishments there is usually a See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of analysts, whose See also:

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty it is primarily to exercise See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant watchfulness over the processes of manufacture, to test the purity of the substances used, as well as that of the final products. The services of analysts are constantly required in judicial enquiries, sometimes in purely criminal cases, some-times in See also:

CIVIL

civil proceedings, such as offences against the customs or See also:

EXCISE (derived through the Dutch, excijs or accijs, possibly from Late Lat. accensare,—ad, to, and census, tax; the word owes something to a confusion with excisum, cut out)

excise or under the various See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

Food and Drugs Acts. In the See also:

case of criminal proceedings, the services of the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official analyst attached to the British See also:

Home See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office are employed. The inland See also:

revenue See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department has a laboratory at See also:

Somerset See also:

House, with a staff of analysts, who are engaged in analysing for excise and other purposes. Under the Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1893, the See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of See also:

Agriculture employs an agricultural chemist, whose duty is the analysis of fertilizers and feeding stuffs. A " public analyst " is an analyst appointed by a See also:

LOCAL

local authority for the purposes of the See also:

Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. He must be possessed of competent medical, chemical and microscopical knowledge to analyse all articles of food and drink (see See also:

ADULTERATION).

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