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
13. Upon the application for a warrant under this Act, the
certificate of the analyst or chemist of any analysis made by him
shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated. Every such
certificate shall be duly signed and acknowledged by such analyst
or chemist before an officer authorised to take acknowledgments of
conveyances of real estate.
14. Courts of special sessions shall have jurisdiction of all cases
arising under this Act, and their jurisdiction is hereby extended
so as to enable them to enforce the penalties imposed by any or all
sections thereof.
15. In all prosecutions under this Act, one-half of the money shall
be paid by the court or clerk thereof to the city or county where the
recovery shall be had, for the support of the poor, except in the city
and county of New York shall be equally divided between the pension
funds of the police and fire departments, and the residue shall be
paid to the Dairy Commissioner, who shall account therefor to the
Treasury of the State, and be added to any appropriation made to carry
out the provisions of this Act. All sums of money expended by the
Dairy Commissioner under the provisions of this Act shall be audited
and allowed by the Comptroller of the State. Any bond given by any
officer shall be subject to the provisions of this section.
16. In all prosecutions under this Act relating to the sale and
manufacture of unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated, or unwholesome
milk, if the milk be shown to contain more than eighty-eight per
centum of water or fluids, or less than twelve per centum of milk
solids, which shall contain not less than three per centum of fat, it
shall be declared adulterated, and milk drawn from cows within fifteen
days before, and five days after, parturition, or from animals fed on
distillery waste, or any substance in the state of putrefaction or
fermentation, or upon any unhealthy food whatever, shall be declared
unclean, unhealthy, impure and unwholesome milk. This section shall
not prevent the feeding of ensilage from silos.
17. The doing of any thing prohibited being done, and the not doing
of any thing directed to be done in this Act, shall be presumptive
evidence of a wilful intent to violate the different sections and
provisions thereof. If any person shall suffer any violation of the
provisions of this Act by his agent, servant, or in any room or
building occupied or controlled by him, he shall be deemed a principal
in such violation and punished accordingly.
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