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
It also provides that oleaginous substances sold upon the market shall
be so branded as to distinguish them from the true dairy product;
and that in hotels, boarding-houses, restaurants, etc., where such
substances are used as an article of food, the bill of fare shall
state the fact, and that the name of the said substance shall be
posted up in the dining-room in a conspicuous place.
Passed, February 20, 1885.
_Pennsylvania._
“An Act to protect dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of
butter and cheese.”
This act requires the branding of imitation butter and cheese.
Penalty, one hundred dollars. Violations of this Act by exportation
to a foreign country are punished by a fine of from five dollars to
two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment from ten to thirty days, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
Approved, May 24, 1883.
“An Act for the protection of the public health and to prevent
adulteration of dairy products and fraud in the sale thereof.”
This law prohibits the sale of oleomargarine and kindred products.
Penalty, one hundred dollars to three hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment from ten to thirty days for the first offence, and by
imprisonment for one year for each subsequent offence.
Approved, May 21, 1885.
_Rhode Island._
“Of the sale of butter, potatoes, onions, berries, nuts, and shelled
beans.”
This law provides that artificial butter shall be stamped
“Oleomargarine,” and that the retailer shall deliver to the purchaser
a label upon which shall be the word “Oleomargarine.”
Penalty, one hundred dollars.
_Tennessee._
Code of 1884, chapter 14, sections 2682, 2683, 2684.
This law requires that the substance shall be manufactured under its
true and appropriate name, and that it shall be distinctly branded
with the true and appropriate name.
Penalty, from ten dollars to three hundred dollars, or imprisonment
from ten to ninety days.
_Vermont._
“An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of oleomargarine and other
substances as butter.”
This law provides that oleomargarine and kindred products shall not be
sold as butter.
Penalty, five hundred dollars.
Approved, November 1884.
Chapters 192, Laws of 1874, 76 of 1870, 51 of 1855, provide against
the adulteration of milk.
_Virginia._
Code of Virginia, 1873, chapter 865, title 26, section 56.
“Provision against adulterating milk intended for the manufacture of
cheese.”
This law provides against the adulteration of milk carried to cheese
manufactories, etc.
Penalty, from twenty-five dollars to one hundred dollars, with costs
of suit.
_West Virginia._
Chapter 41, Acts of West Virginia, 1885.
“An Act to prevent the manufacture and sale of mixed and impure butter
and cheese and imitations thereof.”
This law requires that the true and appropriate name of the substance
shall be printed thereon, etc.
Penalty, from ten dollars to one hundred dollars, or imprisonment.
_Wisconsin._
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