20 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



Broken or unbroken packages defined. The term "Broken or unbroken 

 package" as used in these Regulations, is the original package or part thereof, 

 carton, case, box, barrel, bottle, phial, or other receptacle put up by the manu- 

 facturer to which the label is attached, or which may be suitable for the at- 

 tachment of a label, making one complete package of the food, drug, liquor or 



water article. 

 The original package contemplated includes bpth the wholesale and the retail 



packages. 



REG. 4. State Food Commissioner, Dairy Commissioner, Analyst. The Presi- 

 dent of the Louisiana State Board of Health shall be ex officio State Food 

 Commissioner. The State Food Commissioner may, with the advice and consent 

 of the Louisiana State Board of Health, appoint two or more Assistant Com- 

 missioners, each one of acknowledged standing, ability, and integrity, one of 

 whom shall be an expert in the matter of dairy products, and one of them shall 

 be a practical and Analytical Chemist, who shall be known as the State Analyst. 

 The salaries of each assistant shall be fixed by the State Food Commissioner, 

 by and with the consent of the Louisiana State Board of Health. In case of the 

 absence or inability of the State Analyst to perform all the duties of his office 

 or for the purpose of expediting the work of the Department, the State Food 

 Commissioner may appoint some competent person to assist in the same tem- 

 porarily. 



REG. 5. Inspectors. The State Food Commissioner shall have authority, by 

 and with the consent of the Louisiana State Board of Health, to appoint neces- 

 sary inspectors, to assist in the work of the State Food Commissioner at such 

 times and for such periods of time as may be required in the enforcement of 

 the dairy, drug and food laws of the State. Such Inspectors shall have the 

 same right of access to places to be inspected as the State Food Commissioner. 

 The compensation of such Inspectors shall be fixed by the State Food Commis- 

 sioner, by and with the consent of the Louisiana State Board of Health. 



REG. 6. Duty of State Food Commissioner. It shall be the duty of the State 

 Food Commissioner to enforce all the rules and regulations herein provided 

 for or that may hereafter be enacted by this Board regarding the production, 

 manufacture or sale of dairy products or the adulteration of any article of 

 food or drugs, liquors or waters, and personally or through his assistants, to 

 inspect any article of food, drugs, liquors or waters, made or offered for sale 

 or held in possession for sale, which he may, through himself or his assistants, 

 expect or have reason to believe to be impure, unhealthful, adulterated or mis- 

 branded, and to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted any person or persons, firm 

 or firms, corporation or corporations, engaged in the manufacture or sale of any 

 adulterated or misbranded article or articles of food, drugs, liquors or waters, 

 contrary to these Regulations. 



REG. 7. Examination of foods, drugs, liquors or waters, collection of samples. 

 Methods of analysis. The examination of foods, drugs, liquors or waters shall 

 be made by the State Analyst or his Assistants under the direction of the State 

 Food Commissioner for the purpose of determining from such examinations 

 whether such articles are adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of 

 these regulations, and if it shall appear from any such examination that any 

 of such specimens are adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of these 

 Regulations, the State Food Commissioner shall cause notice thereof to be given 

 to the party from whom such sample was obtained ; any party so notified shall 

 be given an opportunity to be heard under such other rules and regulations as 

 may be prescribed by this Board, and if it appears that any of their rules and 

 regulations have been violated by such party, then the State Food Commis- 

 sioner shall at once certify the facts to the District Attorney of the District 



