388 Milk and Its Products 



cream, or any such article or substance into which any oil, lard or fat 

 not produced from milk or cream enters as a component part, or into 

 which melted butter or butter in any condition or state, or any oil 

 thereof has been introduced to take the place of cream. The term 

 "adulterated milk" when so used means: 



1. Milk containing more than eighty- eight and one-half per 

 centum of water or fluids. 



2. Milk containing less than eleven and one-half per centum of 

 milk solids. 



3. Milk containing less than three per centum of fats. 



4. Milk drawn from cows within fifteen days before and five days 

 after parturition. 



5. Milk drawn from animals fed on distillery waste or any sub- 

 stance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction or on any unhealthy 

 food. 



6. Milk drawn from cows kept in a crowded or unhealthy con- 

 dition. 



7. Milk from which any part of the cream has been removed. 



8. Milk which has been diluted with water or any other fluid, or 

 to which has been added or into which has been introduced any foreign 

 substance whatever. 



All adulterated milk shall be deemed unclean, unhealthy, impure 

 and unwholesome. The terms "pure milk" or "unadulterated milk," 

 when used singly or together, mean sweet milk not adulterated, and the 

 terms "pure cream" or "unadulterated cream," when used singly or 

 together, mean cream taken from pure and unadulterated milk. The 

 term "adulterated cream" when used shall mean cream containing less 

 than eighteen per centum of milk fat or cream to which any substance 

 whatsoever has been added. 



SEC. 31. Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of the produce 

 from such cows, No person shall keep cows, for the production of 

 milk for market or for sale or exchange, or for manufacturing the milk 

 or cream from the same into any article of food, in a crowded or 

 unhealthy condition or in unhealthful or unsanitary surroundings and 

 no person shall keep such cows or the product therefrom in such con- 

 dition or surroundings or in such places as shall cause or tend to cause 

 the produce from such cows to be in an unclean, unhealthful or dis- 

 eased condition, if the produce from such cows is to be sold, offered or 

 exposed for sale upon the markets for consumption or to be manu- 

 factured into any food product, nor shall such cows or the produce 

 therefrom be handled or cared for by any person suffering with or 



