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

by Jesse P. Battershall

The penalty is from fifty dollars to two hundred dollars, or imprisonment from fifty to two hundred days, or both.

“An Act to prevent fraud and deception in the sale of butter and cheese.”

This law is restrictive, requiring the article to be manufactured and sold under its appropriate name.

Penalty is from ten dollars to five hundred dollars or imprisonment from ten to ninety days, or both.

Approved, March 2, 1881.

“An Act to prevent the sale or disposition as butter of the substance known as ‘oleomargarine,’ or ‘oleomargarine butter,’ and when ‘oleomargarine’ or ‘oleomargarine butter’ is sold or disposed of requiring notice thereof to be given.”

This law is restrictive, requiring branding, also requiring hotel-keepers, etc., to keep posted up in their places of business in three places, the words “oleomargarine sold here.”

Penalty from five dollars to five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than three months, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved, March 1, 1883.