MASSACHUSETTS. 



GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 



SEC. 70. General inspection authority. Boards of health of cities and towns, 

 by themselves, their officers or agents, may inspect the carcasses of all slaugh- 

 tered animals and all meat, fish, vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions of any 

 kind found in their cities or towns, and for such purpose may enter any build- 

 ing, enclosure or other place in whicf such carcasses or articles are stored, 

 kept or exposed for sale. If, on such inspection, it is found that such car- 

 casses or articles are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome or, 

 from any cause, unfit for food, the board of health shall seize the same and 

 cause it or them to be destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for 

 food. All money received by the board of health for property disposed of as 

 aforesaid shall, after deducting the expenses of said seizure, be paid to the 

 owner of such property. If the board of health seizes or condemns any such 

 carcass or meat for the reason that it is infected with a contagious disease, 

 it shall immediately give notice to the board of cattle commissioners of the 

 name of the owner or person in whose possession it was found, the nature of 

 the disease and the disposition made of said meat or carcass. As amended 

 April 17, 1908, Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 411, p. 276. See Bui. 69, Rev., pt. 

 3, p. 266. 



SKC. 72. Penalty for hindering inspectors. Whoever prevents, obstructs or 

 interferes with the board of health, its officers or agents, in the performance 

 of its duties as provided herein, or hinders, obstructs or interferes with any 

 inspection or examination by it or them, or whoever secretes or removes any 

 carcass, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or provisions of any kind, for the purpose 

 of preventing the same from being inspected or examined under the provisions 

 of sections seventy to seventy-six, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not 

 more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than sixty 

 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. As amended April 17, 1908; 

 Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 411, p. 276. See Bui. 69, Rev., pt. 3, .p. 266. 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, ch. 56, p. 555. 



SEC. 1. Repeal. Sections twenty-five and twenty-six of chapter seventy-five 

 of the Revised Laws (Bui. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 248), relating to the sale of adul- 

 terated food and drugs, are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 2. Effect. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Approved March 18, 1908. Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 238, p. 153. 



BREAD. 



SEC. 6. Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of the preceding three sec- 

 tions shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars for each offence. 

 The sealer of weights and measures in the respective cities and towns, or the 

 commissioner of weights and measures of the commonwealth, shall cause the 

 provisions of the said three sections to be enforced. As amended March 10, 

 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 197, p. 114. See Bui. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 252. 



Revised Laws 1902, vol. 1, ch. 57, pp. 557-8. 



See also Meat, page 39. 



