Commissioner of Agriculture. 405 



low shall be introduced, shall add thereto or combine therewith 

 any annatto or compounds of the same, or any other substance or 

 substances whatever, for the purpose or with the effect of impart- 

 ing thereto a color resembling yellow, or any shade of yellow 

 butter or cheese, nor introduce any such coloring matter or other 

 substance into any of the articles of which the same is composed. 



People v. Arensberg, 40 Hun, 358; s. c, reversed, 103 N. Y. 388; 



105 Id. 123. 

 People v. Hill, 44 Hun, 472. 



§ 29a. No person or persons shall manufacture, sell or expose 

 for sale any poisonous coloring matter for the coloring of food 

 products of any kind, nor shall any person or persons use any 

 poisonous coloring matter manufactured, sold, offered or exposed 

 for sale within this state; nor shall any person or persons sell,, 

 offer or expose for sale any food product containing such poison- 

 ous coloring matter. The state board of health shall cause sam- 

 ples of coloring matter that are exposed for sale upon the market 

 for use in food products to be analyzed and report the results of 

 such analysis to the legislature at the next session. (Added 'by- 

 chapter 518 of the Laics of 1899.) 



§ 30. Manufacture and sale of imitation cheese prohibited. — 

 No person shall manufacture, deal in, sell, offer or expose for sale 

 or exchange any article or substance, in the semblance of or in 

 imitation of cheese made exclusively of unadulterated milk or 

 cream, or both, into which any animal, intestinal or offal fats or 

 oils, or melted butter or butter in any condition or state or 

 modification of the same, or oleaginous substances of any kind 

 not produced from unadulterated milk or cream, shall be 

 introduced. 



§ 31. When prohibition does not apply to skim-milk or skim- 

 cheese. — Except in the counties of New York and Kings, the pro- 

 hibitions contained in this article against the sale of adulterated 

 milk shall not apply to skim-milk, which is clean, pure, healthy, 

 wholesome and unadulterated, except by skimming, sold for use 



