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ABSTRACT OF LAWS.

The following is but a brief synopsis of the Dairy and Food Laws. The Digest and Rulings cover but a portion of the food and drink products affected by the statutes. Every article of food and drink comes within the law's regulation, and dealers are advised to examine the laws carefully and inform themselves fully.

IN GENERAL.

No person shall within this State manufacture for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or sell, any article of food or drink which is adulterated.

The taking of orders, or the making of agreements or contracts by any person, firm or corporation, or by any agent or representative thereof, for the future delivery of any of the articles, products, goods, wares or merchandise embraced within the provisions of this act is deemed a sale.

Under this statute a dealer is liable for selling an adulterated article, although he may have no knowledge that the same is adulterated. A guarantee of purity received from the manufacturer or jobber does not relieve a person handling adulterated goods from liability.

AN ARTICLE

shall be deemed to be adulterated:

1. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity; 2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it;

3. If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it;

4. If it is an imitation of or is sold under the name of another article;

5. If it consists wholly or in part of a deceased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not, or, in the case of milk, if it is the product of a diseased animal;

6. If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is, except in the case of pure butter which may be colored;

7. If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health.

MIXTURE OF COMPOUNDS

recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food may be sold under the following restrictions:

1.

All packages containing same must bear the name and address of the manufacturer or compounder thereof;

2. They must contain nothing injurious to health;

3. They must not be sold in imitation of, or under the name of another article;

4. They must be distinctly labeled under their own distinctive name, and in a manner so as to plainly and correctly show they are a mixture or compound;

5. A mixture or compound cannot be sold under the name of any ingredient contained therein, even though the words mixture or compound be used in connection therewith. It must be sold under an original or coined name.

Exceptions under the law are:

Buckwheat flour, coffee and lard, which may be mixed with other substances under certain restrictions and sold as buckwheat flour compound, coffee compound, and lard compound.

DAIRY LAWS.

UNWHOLESOME MILK AND CREAM,

Whenever it is determined by the Dairy and Food Commissioner, his deputy or inspectors, that any person is using, selling or furnishing to any skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, milk depot, farm dairy, milk dealer, the retail trade, or to any consumer of milk, any impure or unwholesome milk or cream, caused by the unsanitary or filthy condition of the premises where cows are kept, or by the unsanitary or filthy care or handling of the cows, the use of unclean utensils, unwholesome food, or from any other cause, the person so offending shall be notified and warned by the Commissioner, his deputy, or inspectors not to use sell or furnish such milk or cream at any of the places, or to any of the persons above mentioned. A failure to obey such notice and warning and the continued sale of such milk is made a disdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.

SANITARY CONDITION.

Whenever it is determined by the Dairy and Food Commissioner that unsanitary conditions exist in the operation of any skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, milk depot, or farm dairy, the proprietor or manager of the same, shall be notified and warned by the Commissioner, his deputy or inspectors, to place such skimming station, creamery, etc., in a sanitary condition. A failure to obey such notice and warning is made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.

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