26 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



Provided, the use of any substance deemed poisonous or injurious is hereby 

 prohibited and the use thereof in the manufacture of baking powder is hereby 

 declared unlawful. Baking powders must yield at least 8 per cent available 

 carbon dioxide. The use of argolite, terra alba and all other mineral fillers is 



prohibited. 



linking powders must have specific name of the powder on the label and no 

 tagmltoQt can be named as a component of the powder not found in the article. 

 .;. 33. To regulate tlir manufacture and sale of substitutes of butter. 

 (a) That for the purpose of these regulations every article, substitute or com- 

 pound of any other than that which is produced from pure milk or cream, there- 

 from made in a semblance of butter -and designated to be used as a substitute 

 fur butter made from pure milk or its cream, is hereby declared to be imita- 

 tion butter. 



Provided : That the use of salt and harmless coloring matter for coloring the 

 product of pure milk or cream shall not be construed to render such product 

 an imitation. 



(b) No person shall coat, powder or color with annato or any injurious color- 

 ing matter whatever, any substance designed as a substitute for butter whereby 

 such substitute or product so colored or compounded shall be made to resemble 

 butter, the product of the dairy and sold as such. No person shall combine any 

 animal fat with butter and sell the same for consumption. 



Provided: nothing in these regulations shall be construed to prohibit the 

 use of salt, rennet and harmless coloring matter for coloring the product of 

 pure milk or cream from the same. 



(c) No person shall produce or manufacture any substance or semblance in 

 imitation of natural butter, nor sell or keep for sale, barter or give away, nor 

 offer for sale any imitation butter made, manufactured, compounded or pro- 

 duced in violation of this Regulation whether such imitation butter shall be 

 made or produced in this State or elsewhere; this Regulation shall not be con- 

 strued to prohibit the manufacture and sale under the Regulations hereinafter 

 provided of substances designed to be used as a substitute for butter, and not 

 manufactured or colored as herein provided. 



(d) Every person who lawfully manufactures any substance designed to be 

 used as a substitute for butter, shall mark by branding, stamping or stenciling 

 upon the top side of each box, tub, firkin, or other package in which such 

 article shall be kept, and in which it shall be removed from the place where it 

 is produced, in a clear and durable manner in the English language the word 

 " Oleomargarine " or the word " Butterine " or the words " Substitute for But- 

 ter " or the words " Imitation Butter " in printed letters, in plain roman type ; 

 each of which shall not be less than three-fourths of an inch in length. 



(e) It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale, barter or give away, any 

 imitation butter without informing the purchaser thereof, or the person or per- 

 sons to whom the same is offered for sale, that the substance sold or offered 

 for sale is imitation butter. 



< f i No person by himself or with others shall ship, consign or forward, by 

 any common carrier whether public or private, any substance designed to be 

 used as a substitute for butter, unless it shall be marked or -branded on each 

 tub, box, firkin, jar or other package containing the same, as provided in this 

 Regulation, and unless it be consigned by the carriers and receipted for by its 

 true name. 



(g) No person shall have in his possession or under his control, any substance 

 designed to be used as a substitute for butter unless the tub, firkin, jar, box or 

 other p;i< mining the same be clearly and durably marked as provided 



in this Regulation. 



