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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Milk must 



be 



pasteurized. 



Cream for 

 butter. 



Butter used 

 in manu- 

 facture of 

 of foodstuffs. 



PURE MILK LAW. 



An act to prevent the sale of impure and unwholesome milk, 

 butter, ice cream and other milk products; to declare ice 

 cream a milk product; to grade milk; to provide rules and 

 regulations therefor, and to empower cities, groups of 

 cities, counties and groups of counties, or cities and counties, 

 to establish inspccticni service; to provide for the enforce- 

 ment of this act; to prescribe penalties for violation of the 

 provisions hereof; and to repeal an act entitled "An act to 

 prevent the sale of impure and unwholesome milk, to grade 

 milk, to provide rules and regulations therefor, and to 

 empower cities, groups of cities, counties and groups of 

 counties, or cities and counties, to establish inspection 

 service; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to 

 prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions hereof; 

 and to make an appropriation therefor/' approved 

 June 15, 1915. 



(Approved May 22, 1917 ; amendments approved May 6, 1919 ; 

 Stats, 1917, p. 803; 1919, p. 326.) 



SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or 

 corporation, except in bulk to the wholesale trade, to sell or 

 exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange for human 

 consumption any milk from cows that have not passed the 

 tuberculin test, until it has been pasteurized by the holding 

 process at a temperature not less than one hundred forty 

 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty-five minutes; provided, that 

 milk for drinking purposes shall not be heated for more than 

 one hour nor above one hundred forty-five degrees Fahrenheit ; 

 provided, further, that cream that is to be manufactured into 

 butter may be pasteurized by heating it to a higher degree 

 than milk and, when the same is uniformly heated to and held 

 at a higher degree of temperature than one hundred fifty-one 

 degrees Fahrenheit, the time for holding may be decreased 

 from twenty-five minutes by one minute for each degree of 

 temperature over one hundred fifty-one degrees Fahrenheit. 

 It shall further be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation 

 to sell or exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange for 

 human consumption any butter, ice cream or other milk 

 products except cheese and butter as hereinafter provided, 

 into the composition of which any milk enters other than that 

 permitted in this section of this act, to be sold at retail for 

 human consumption ; provided, that nothing in this act shall 

 be construed to prohibit the use or sale of butter that is not 

 pasteurized or butter that is not the product of nonreacting 

 tuberculin-tested cows; provided, that said butter be used by 

 manufacturers of foodstuffs only and in the manufacture of 

 such foodstuffs said butter shall be subjected to a minimum 

 temperature of two hundred twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit; 

 and provided further, that it shall be unlawful to use any 

 such butter except in the manufacture of food subjected to said 



