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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Manufacture 

 and sale of 

 imitation 

 milk. 



Imitation 

 milk to be 

 labeled. 



made in imitation or semblance, or having the appearance or 

 semblance, of milk or condensed or evaporated milk, or when 

 so made or having such appearance or semblance calculated 

 or intended, whether by intent of the compounder or other 

 person, or by reason of the appearance or other characteristic 

 of the mixture or compound, for use or disposition as or for 

 milk, or as or for condensed or evaporated milk, or to induce 

 its purchase, or use as or for milk or condensed or evaporated 

 milk. 



SEC. 2. No person by himself, his agents or servants shall 

 render, manufacture, sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or 

 have in his possession with intent to sell or to use, or to serve 

 to patrons, customers, boarders or inmates of any hotel, 

 dwelling-house, restaurant, public -conveyance or 'boarding 

 house, any article, product or compound made wholly or in 

 part, out of any imitation milk; provided, that nothing in 

 this section shall be construed to prohibit the manufacture 

 or sale, under regulations hereinafter provided, of imi- 

 tation milk, of substances or compounds that may be used as 

 imitation milk, of a separate and distinct character not resem- 

 bling milk or condensed or evaporated milk, and in such a 

 manner as will advise the purchaser and consumer of its real 

 character, colored or containing ingredients that cause it to 

 look unlike pure whole cow's milk or the condensed or evap- 

 orated product "made therefrom ; and provided, further, it is 

 not adulterated within the meaning of this act; and provided, 

 further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent 

 or prohibit the manufacture, sale, or use, for cooking purposes, 

 of imitation milk as defined by section one of this act. 



SEC. 3. Each person, who by himself, or another, lawfully 

 manufactures any imitation milk, or any substitute that may 

 be used as and substituted for milk or condensed or evap- 

 orated milk, shall mark the same by printing, stamping or 

 stenciling upon the top, if the top be of sufficient size and 

 upon the sides of each case, box, carton, or other package, 

 in which that article or substance shall be kept, and in 

 which it shall be removed from the. place where it is produced 

 or put up in a clear manner, in the English language, 

 the words, "imitation milk," in printed letters in plain 

 roman type, each of which shall not be less than one inch 

 in height and one-half inch in width, and in addition to the 

 above shall prepare a statement, printed in plain roman type, 

 of a size not smaller than pica, stating in the English 

 language its name, and the name and address of the manu- 

 facturer, the name of the place where manufactured or put up, 

 and also the name and actual percentages of the various 

 ingredients used in the manufacture of such imitation milk; 

 and shall place a copy of said statement within and upon the 

 contents of each case, box, carton, or other package, and next 

 to that portion of each case, box, carton, or other package as 

 is commonly and most conveniently opened, and in addition 



