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ized, in compliance with section 1 of chapter 94 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) 

 at the place where such milk is produced, only in establishments operated in 

 accordance with the regulations made by the Department of Public Health 

 under authority of section 48A of chapter 94 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) 

 provided that immediately prior to such pasteurization all apparatus used 

 therefor or therein shall have been thoroughly cleaned and sterilized. No 

 such milk shall be pasteurized' later than twenty hours after the earliest time 

 of drawing from the cow any portion thereof. Such milk, prior to such pas- 

 teurization, shall contain not less than four per cent milk fat as provided by 

 the regulations of the American Associatioin of Medical Milk Commissions 

 in effect when such milk is produced and subsequent to pasteurization and 

 when delivered to the consumer, shall not show a bacterial count of more than 

 five hundred colonies per cubic centimeter. Such milk shall be capped in 

 accordance with the standards established by the American Association of 

 Medical Milk Commissions and every such cap shall bear the words Certified 

 Milk — Pasteurized and the day of the week upon which such milk was pas- 

 teurized. 



6. Caps not in strict compliance with these rules, regulations and standards 

 may be used for a period not exceeding six months from the effective date of 

 such rules, regulations and standards, providing that the grade designation 

 is clearly set forth and all other requirements relating to the production, pro- 

 cessing, labeling and sale have been substantially complied with. 



Edgar L. Gillett, Chairman, 



Comviissioner of Agriculture. 

 Approved in Council: Joseph E. Warner, 



May 8, 1935 Attorney General. 



William L. Reed, Henry D. Chadwick, 



Executive Secretary. Commissioner of Public Health 



Fresh Egg Law 

 The sale of fresh eggs in our large markets and at our roadside stands has 

 presented serious problems to us in the past, due to the fact that the eggs sold 

 or offered for sale were not fresh eggs within a reasonable definition of the 

 term, and in many cases the advertisements in the newspapers, stores and 

 along the highways were grossly misrepresentative of the quality of eggs 

 advertised as fresh or strictly fi"esh eggs. Our poultry farmers were greatly 

 concerned over the ever-increasing tendency to advertise and sell as fresh 

 eggs, eggs that were coming in from distant places and were not fresh 

 within the accepted definition of this term when they were sold to the consumer. 

 Complaints were received by the consumers regarding the quality of the eggs 

 purchased as fresh or strictly fresh eggs. To remedy this problem legislation 

 was approved by the Governor on June 21, 1935, and became effective in ninety, 

 days. The provisions of this fresh egg law* are as follows : 



An Act Relative to the Sale and Distribution of Eggs 

 Chapter ninety-four of the General Law3 is hereby amended by inserting 

 after section ninety, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition, the following 

 new section: — 



Section 90A. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, no person shall sell, 

 or offer, expose or advertise for sale, eggs as "fresh eggs", "strictly fx'esh 

 eggs", "nearby eggs" or "new-laid eggs" or eggs described with words of 

 similar import, unless they meet the following specifications when examined by 

 a method known as "candling", viz.: — (1) the shell shall be clean and sound, 

 (2) the air cell shall be not more than one quarter inch in depth and shall 

 be localized and regular in outline, (3) the white shall be firm and clear, (4) 

 the yolk shall not be plainly visible but may be dimly or slightly visible, and 

 (5) there shall be no visible germ development. 



Not more than ten per cent of the number of eggs sold at wholesale or 

 offered, exposed or advertised for sale as aforesaid under any such description, 

 and not more than two eggs in each dozen sold at retail or offered, exposed 

 or advertised for sale as aforesaid under any such description, may vary from 



