any steamship, vessel or boat, or any carriage, car, truck, horse-box or other vehicle used for the carriage of articles subject to the provisions of this Act, but shall, if required, state in writing the grounds on which he has so entered. SEC. 23. Obstructing inspector. Every person who refuses to admit, or who obstructs or impedes, an inspector or other officer acting in execution of this Act, or of any order or regulation made by the Governor in Council or the Minister thereunder, and every person who aids and assists him therein, shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars; and the inspector or other officer may apprehend the offender and take him forthwith before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law; but no person so apprehended shall be detained in custody, without the order of the justice, longer than twenty-four hours.

SEC. 24. Unlawful removal. Every person who moves, or causes or allows to be moved, any animal, or any article in violation of the provisions of this Act, shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 25. Bribery of inspector. The provisions of The Criminal Code respecting the bribery and corruption of officials or employees of the Government extend to all inspectors and other persons appointed to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 26. Violations of Act. Every person who violates any provision of this Act, or of any regulation made by the Governor in Council or by the Minister under the authority of this Act, in respect to which no penalty is hereinbefore provided, shall for every such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 27. Apprehension of offenders. Any inspector or constable may, without warrant, apprehend any person found committing an offense against the provisions of this Act, and shall take any person so apprehended forthwith before a justice of the peace to be examined and dealt with according to law; but a person so apprehended shall not be detained in custody, without the order of a justice, longer than twenty-four hours; and any inspector or constable may require that any animal or any article moved in violation of the provisions of this Act be forthwith taken back within the limits of the place whence it was moved, and may enforce and execute such requisition at the expense of the owner of such animal or article.

SEC. 28. Place of committing of offence. Every offence against this Act, or against any order or regulation of the Governor in Council or of the Minister, shall for the purpose of proceedings under this Act, or of any such order or regulation, be deemed to have been committed, and every cause of complaint under this Act, or any such order or regulation, shall be deemed to have arisen, either in the place in which it actually was committed or arose, or in any place in which the person charged or complained against happens to be.

SEC. 29. Recovery of penalties. Every penalty imposed by this Act shall be recoverable, with costs, before any two justices of the peace, or any magistrate having the powers of two justices of the peace, under Part XV. of The Criminal Code. As amended June 16, 1908. 7-8 Edward VII, ch. 47.

SEC. 30. Administration of Act. The administration of any part of this Act may be assigned by the Governor in Council to any Minister other than the Minister of Agriculture, and in such case the Minister to whom such assignment is made shall have the same powers with respect to the part of this Act to him assigned as the Minister of Agriculture now has.

SEC. 31. Suspension of operation. The Governor in Council may suspend the operation of any of the sections of this Act until the first day of January next. Assented to April 27, 1907. 6-7 Edward VII, ch. 27.

CONNECTICUT.

See Appendix, Bulletin 112, Part I, page 152, for general food laws, passed July 31, 1907, and included in that publication for convenience, though the compilation covered only laws passed in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907.

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KENTUCKY.

GENERAL FOOD LAWS.

SEC. 1. Adulterated or misbranded food unlawful; penalty; proviso. That it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation within this State to manufacture for sale, produce for sale, expose for sale, have in his or their possession for sale or to sell any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act; and any person or persons, firm or corporation who shall manufacture for sale, expose for sale, have in his or their possession for sale or sell any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not to exceed fifty days or both such fine and imprisonment. Provided, That no article of food or drug shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the provisions of this act when intended for shipment to any other State or country, when such article is not adulterated or misbranded in conflict with the laws of the United States; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for sale for domestic use or consumption within this State, then this proviso shall not exempt said article from the operations of any of the other provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. Food defined. That the term food, as used in this act, shall include every article used for or entering into the composition of food or drink for man or domestic animals, including all liquors.

SEC. 3. Misbranding defined. For the purpose of this act, an article of food shall be deemed misbranded:

First. If the package or label shall bear any statement purporting to name any ingredient or substance as not being contained in such article, which statement shall not be true in any part; or any statement purporting to name the substances of which such article is made, which statement shall not give fully the name or names of all substances contained in any measurable quantity.

Second. If it is labeled or branded in imitation of or sold under the name of another article, or is an imitation either in package or label of another substance of a previously established name; or if it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser or consumer with respect to where the article was made or as to its true nature and substance, or as to any identifying term whatsoever whereby the purchaser or consumer might suppose the article to possess any property or degree of purity or quality which the article does not possess.

Third. If in the case of certified milk, it be sold as or labeled "certified milk," and it has not been so certified under rules and regulations by any county medical society, or if when so certified it is not up to that degree of purity and quality necessary for infant feeding.

Fourth. If it be misrepresented as to weight or measure or, if where the length of time the product has been ripened, aged or stored, or if where the length of time it has been kept in tin or other receptacle, tends to render the article unwholesome, the facts of such excessive storage, ripening, aging or packing are not plainly made known to the purchaser and to the consumer.

Fifth. If the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, which statement, design or device shall be false or misleading in any particular. Provided, That articles of liquor which do not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded within the provisions of this act, in the case of articles labeled, branded or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations, or blends, and the word " compound," "imitation," or 'blend," as the case may be, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale. Provided, That the term blend as used herein shall be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless coloring and flavoring ingredients used for the purpose of coloring and flavoring only.

SEC. 4. Adulteration defined. For the purpose of this act, an article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated:

First. If any substance or substances be mixed or packed with it so as to reduce, lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.

Second. If any substance be substituted in whole or in part for the article. Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted; or if the product is below that standard of quality represented to the purchaser or consumer.

Fourth. If it is mixed, colored, coated, polished, powdered, or stained whereby damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it is, or if it is colored or flavored in imitation of the genuine color or flavor of another substance of a previously established name.

Fifth. If it contains added poisonous ingredient which may render such article injurious to health, or if it contains any antiseptic or preservative which may render such article injurious to health, or any other antiseptic or preservative not evident or not plainly stated on the main label of the package.

Sixth. If it consists of or is manufactured from in whole or in part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy or decomposed substance, either animal or vegetable, unfit for food, or an animal or vegetable substance produced, stored, transported or kept in a condition that would render the article diseased, contaminated or unwholesome, or if it is any part the product of a diseased animal, or the product of an animal that has died otherwise than by slaughter, or that been fed upon the offal from a slaughterhouse, or if it is the milk from an animal fed upon a substance unfit for food for dairy animals or from an animal kept and milked in a filthy or a contaminated stable or in surroundings that would render the milk contaminated. Provided, That any article of food which may be adulterated and not misbranded within the meaning of this act, and which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredient and which is not otherwise adulterated within the meaning of paragraphs four, five and six of section four of this act, or which does not contain any filler or ingredient which debases without adding food value, can be manufactured or sold, if the same be labeled, branded or tagged so as to show the exact character thereof. And all such labels and all labeling of packages provided for in any provisions of this act shall be on the main label of each package and in such position and character of type and terms as will be plainly seen, read and understood by the purchaser or consumer. Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring or compelling the proprietors, manufacturers or sellers of proprietary foods which contain no unwholesome substances or ingredients to disclose their trade formulas except in so far as the provisions of this (act) require to secure freedom from adulteration, imita

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tion or misbranding. But in the case of baking powders, every can or other package shall be labeled so as to show clerely the name of the acid salt which shall be plainly stated in the face of the label to show whether such salt is cream of tartar, phosphate or alum. Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine, butterine, or kindred compounds in a separate and distinct form, and in such manner as will advise the consumer of the real character, free from coloration or ingredient that causes it to look like butter.

[Sections 5 to 7, relate to drugs.]

SEC. 8. Director of experiment station to make analysis, fix methods and standards; board for establishing regulations. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, or under his direction, the head of the division of food inspection of the said station, to make or cause to be made examinations of samples of food and drugs manufactured or on sale in Kentucky at such time and place and to such extent as he may determine. He shall also make, or cause to be made, analysis of any sample of food or drug which the State Board of Health or the State Board of Pharmacy may suspect of being adulterated or misbranded, and of any sample of food or drug furnished by any Commonwealth's, county or city attorney of this State. And the said director may appoint such agent or agents as he may deem necessary, who shall have free access at all reasonable hours for the purpose of examining into places wherein any food or drug product is being produced, manufactured, prepared, kept or offered for sale, for the purpose of determining as to whether or not any of the provisions of this act are being violated, and such agent or agents upon tendering the market price of any article may take from any person, firm or other corporation, a sample of any article desired for examination.

The director of said Experiment Station is hereby empowered to adopt and fix the methods by which the samples taken under the provisions of this act shall be analyzed or examined, and to adopt and fix standards of purity, quality or strength, when such standards are necessary or are not specified or fixed herein or by statute. Provided, That such standards shall be published for the information and guidance of the trade. Provided further, That for the purpose of uniformity, when such standards so fixed differ from the legally adopted standards of the United States Department of Agriculture, the director of said station shall arrange for a conference between the proper food control representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture and the director of said station and the representatives of the trade to be affected, for the purpose of arriving, if possible, at a uniform state and national standard. Provided further, That in the case of final dispute the validity of such standards adopted by the director of said station shall be determined by the Courts under the rules of evidence. And Provided further, That when the standard or nomenclature for any food or food product has been determined by the Supreme Court of the United States such standard or nomenclature shall govern in the enforcement of the provisions of this act. Provided further, That all rulings pertaining to sanitation under this act shall be collaborated in connection with the State Board of Health. And provided further, That at the regular annual meetings of the Kentucky Pharmaceutical association and the Kentucky State Medical association each of said associations shall elect one representative, which representatives, together with the director of said station shall make and establish all rules and regulations for the governing and carrying out of the provisions of this act relating to drugs.

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