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
9. In all prosecutions under this chapter, if the milk is shown upon
analysis to contain more than eighty-seven per cent. of watery fluid,
or to contain less than thirteen per cent. of milk solids, it shall be
deemed for the purposes of this chapter to be adulterated.
[Sidenote: Inspectors to institute complaints. Public Statutes, chap.
57, § 10.]
10. It shall be the duty of every inspector to institute a complaint
for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter on the
information of any person who lays before him satisfactory evidence by
which to sustain such complaint.
[Sidenote: Names, etc., of persons convicted to be published. Public
Statutes, chap. 57, § 11.]
11. Each inspector shall cause the name and place of business of every
person convicted of selling adulterated milk, or of having the same in
his possession with intent to sell, to be published in two newspapers
in the county in which the offence was committed.
[Sidenote: Milk cans to hold eight quarts when, etc. Public Statutes,
chap. 57, § 12.]
12. When milk is sold by the can, such can shall hold eight quarts,
and no more.
[Sidenote: Spurious butter sold in boxes, tubs and firkins to be
plainly marked as such. 1884, 310, § 1.]
[Sidenote: Retail packages to be marked on outside of wrapper.]
13. Whoever, by himself or his agents, sells, exposes for sale, or
has in his possession with intent to sell, any article, substance or
compound, made in imitation or semblance of butter, or as a substitute
for butter, and not made exclusively and wholly of milk or cream, or
containing any fats, oils or grease not produced from milk or cream,
shall have the words “imitation butter,” or “oleomargarine,” stamped,
labelled or marked, in printed letters of plain Roman type, not less
than one inch in length, so that said word cannot be easily defaced,
upon the top and side of every tub, firkin, box or package containing
any of said article, substance, or compound. And in cases of retail
sales of any of said article, substance or compound, not in the
original packages, the seller shall, by himself or his agents, attach
to each package so sold, and shall deliver therewith to the purchaser,
a label or wrapper bearing in a conspicuous place upon the outside of
the package the words “imitation butter” or “oleomargarine” in printed
letters of plain Roman type, not less than one half inch in length.
[Sidenote: Spurious cheese to be plainly marked as such. Public
Statutes, chap. 56, § 18.]
[Sidenote: Wrappers to be marked.]
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