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
5. Whoever by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or
agent of any other person, sells, exchanges, or delivers, or has in
his custody or possession with intent to sell or exchange, or exposes
or offers for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, or milk to which
water or any foreign substance has been added, or milk produced from
cows fed on the refuse of distilleries or from sick or diseased cows,
shall for a first offence be punished by fine of not less than fifty
nor more than two hundred dollars; for a second offence by fine of
not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than thirty nor
more than sixty days; and for a subsequent offence by fine of fifty
dollars and by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less
than sixty nor more than ninety days.
[Sidenote: Penalty for selling milk from which cream has been removed.
Public Statutes, chap. 57, § 6.]
6. Whoever by himself or by his servant or as the servant or agent of
any other person, sells, exchanges, or delivers, or has in his custody
or possession with intent to sell or exchange, or exposes or offers
for sale as pure milk, any milk from which the cream or a part thereof
has been removed, shall be punished by the penalties provided in the
preceding section.
[Sidenote: Vessels containing milk from which cream has been removed
to be marked “skimmed milk.” Public Statutes, chap. 57, § 7.]
7. No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a dealer, shall
sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession, with
intent to sell, exchange, or deliver, milk from which the cream or any
part thereof has been removed, unless in a conspicuous place above
the centre upon the outside of every vessel, can, or package from or
in which such milk is sold, the words “skimmed milk” are distinctly
marked in letters not less than one inch in length. Whoever violates
the provisions of this section shall be punished by the penalties
provided by section 5.
[Sidenote: Penalty on inspectors, etc., for conniving, etc. Public
Statutes, chap. 57, § 8. 1884, 310, § 5.]
8. Any inspector of milk, and any servant or agent of an inspector who
wilfully connives at or assists in a violation of the provisions of
this chapter, and whoever hinders, obstructs, or in any way interferes
with any inspector of milk, or any servant or agent of an inspector
in the performance of his duty, shall be punished by fine of not
less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days.
[Sidenote: What milk to be deemed adulterated. Public Statutes, chap.
57, § 9.]
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