Food Adulteration and Its Detection / With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix

by Jesse P. Battershall

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When milk is deemed to be adulterated.