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
This law requires that a license shall be necessary to manufacture,
import, or sell oleomargarine or kindred products within the State.
License to manufacture or import not less than one thousand; license
to sell not less than five hundred.
Penalty from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars, or imprisonment
not to exceed one year or both.
Approved, April 6, 1885.
_Connecticut._
“An Act concerning the sale of oleomargarine and other articles.”
This law requires that the article shall be properly branded, and that
the seller shall keep a sign posted up in his place of business that
such commodity is sold there.
Penalty seven dollars, or imprisonment from ten to thirty days or both.
Approved, April 4, 1883.
_Delaware._
“An Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine.”
This law is restrictive in its nature.
Penalty fifty dollars, commitment until the fine is paid.
Approved, February 10, 1879.
“An Act to amend chapter 154, volume 16, Laws of Delaware.”
This amendment has reference to the fact that the substance
manufactured is “artificial butter.”
Passed, March 21, 1883.
_Florida._
Chapter 80, sections 34-35, McClellans’ Digest, 1881.
Section 34 makes it a misdemeanour to sell spurious preparations as
butter; section 35 has reference to hotels and boarding-houses.
Penalty, not to exceed one hundred, or imprisonment not to exceed
thirty days, or both.
_Illinois._
“An Act to prevent and punish the adulteration of articles of food,
drink and medicine, and the sale thereof when adulterated.”
Section 3 of this law has reference to colouring matter in food, drink
or medicine.
Section 4 of this law has reference to mixing oleomargarine with
butter, cheese, etc., requiring the seller to inform the buyer of the
fact and the proportion of the mixture.
Penalty, first offence, twenty-five dollars to two hundred dollars;
second offence, one hundred dollars to two hundred dollars, or
imprisonment from one to six months or both; third offence, from five
hundred dollars to two thousand dollars and imprisonment not less than
one year nor more than five years.
Approved, June 1, 1881.
“An Act to require operators of butter and cheese factories on the
co-operative plan to give bonds, and to prescribe penalties for the
violation thereof.”
This law requires the filing of a bond in the penal sum of six
thousand dollars that certain reports will be made on the first of
each month and a copy filed with the town clerk, etc.
Penalty, from two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, or
imprisonment from thirty days to six months, or both.
Approved, June 18, 1883.
_Indiana._
Section 2071, Revised Statutes. “Selling unwholesome milk.”
This section provides against the sale of unwholesome milk, whether
from adulteration or from the feed given the cows; also against the
use of poisonous or deleterious material in the manufacture of butter
and cheese.
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