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
2. And be it enacted, that every person who shall sell, or who shall
offer for sale, or who shall transport or carry, for the purposes of
sale, or who shall have in possession with intent to sell or offer for
sale, any impure, adulterated or unwholesome milk, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be subject
to the penalties prescribed in section eight of this Act.
[Sidenote: Penalty for adulterating milk and keeping cows in an
unhealthy condition, etc.]
3. And be it enacted, that every person who shall adulterate milk
or who shall keep cows for the production of milk, in a crowded
or unhealthful condition, or feed the same on food that produces
impure, diseased or unwholesome milk, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject to the
penalties prescribed in section eight of this Act.
[Sidenote: Addition of water or other substance declared an
adulteration.]
4. And be it enacted, that the addition of water or any substance or
thing is hereby declared an adulteration; and milk that is obtained
from animals that are fed on distillery waste, usually called “swill,”
or upon any substance in a state of putrefaction or rottenness, or
upon any substance of an unhealthful nature, is hereby declared to be
impure and unwholesome, and any person offending as aforesaid shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be
subject to the penalties prescribed in section eight of this Act.
[Sidenote: Penalty for feeding cows on unwholesome substances.]
5. And be it enacted, that every person who shall feed cows on
distillery waste, usually called “swill,” or upon any substance in
a state of putrefaction, or rottenness or upon any substance of an
unwholesome nature, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on
conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in
section eight of this Act.
[Sidenote: Penalty for selling or offering for sale milk exposed to
certain diseases.]
6. And be it enacted, that every person who shall sell, or who shall
offer for sale any milk that has been exposed to, or contaminated
by the emanations, discharge or exhalations from persons sick with
scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, small pox, typhoid fever, or any
contagious disease by which the health or life of any person may be
endangered or compromised, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on
conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in
section eight of this Act.
[Sidenote: When milk is deemed to be adulterated.]
7. And be it enacted, that in all prosecutions under this Act, if the
milk shall be shown, upon analysis, to contain more than eighty-seven
per centum of watery fluids, or to contain less than thirteen per
centum of milk solids, it shall be deemed, for the purposes of this
Act, to be adulterated.
[Sidenote: Penalty for violating the provisions of this Act.]
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