Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendixBattershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
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Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix
Battershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
Food adulteration and inspection; Food adulteration and inspection -- United States
SPECIAL ACT to prevent deception in the sale of dairy products, and
to preserve the public health, being supplementary to and in aid
of chapter two hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, entitled “An act to prevent deception in sales of dairy
products.”
(PASSED April 30, 1885).
_The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows_:--
SECTION 1. No person or persons shall sell or exchange, or expose
for sale or exchange, any unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated or
unwholesome milk, or shall offer for sale any article of food made
from the same, or of cream from the same. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to skim milk sold to bakers or housewives
for their own use or manufacture, upon written orders for the same,
nor to skim milk sold for use in the county in which it is produced.
This provision shall not apply to pure skim cheese made from milk
which is clean, pure, healthy, wholesome and unadulterated, except
by skimming. Whoever violates the provisions of this section is
guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment of not less than one month or more than six months, or
both such fine and imprisonment for the first offence, and by six
months’ imprisonment for each subsequent offence.
2. No person shall keep cows for the production of milk for market,
or for sale or exchange, or for manufacturing the same, or cream from
the same, into articles of food, in a crowded or unhealthy, condition,
or feed the cows on food that is unhealthy, or that produces impure,
unhealthy, diseased or unwholesome milk. No person shall manufacture
from impure, unhealthy, diseased or unwholesome milk, or of cream from
the same, any article of food. Whoever violates the provisions of
this section is guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be punished by a
fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment of not less than one month or more than
four months, or by both such fine and imprisonment for the first
offence, and by four months’ imprisonment for each subsequent offence.
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