KENTUCKY. 



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GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 



SEC. 1. Adulterated or misbranded food unlawful; penalty; proviso. That it 

 shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation within this 

 State to manufacture for sale, produce for sale, expose for sale, have in his 

 or their possession for sale or to sell any article of food or drug which is adul- 

 terated or misbranded within the meaning of this act ; and any person or per- 

 sons, firm or corporation who shall manufacture for sale, expose for sale, have 

 in his or their possession for sale or sell any article of food or drug which is 

 adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act shall be fined not less 

 than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not to 

 exceed fifty days or both such fine and imprisonment. Provided, That no 

 article of food or drug shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the 

 provisions of this act when intended for shipment to any other State or coun- 

 try, when such article is not adulterated or misbranded in conflict with the 

 laws of the United States; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered 

 for sale for domestic use or consumption within this State, then this proviso 

 shall not exempt said article from the operations of any of the other pro- 

 visions of this act. 



2. Food defined. That the term food, as used in this act, shall include 

 every article used for or entering into the composition of food or drink for 

 man or domestic animals, including all liquors. 



SEC. 3. Uisbranding defined. For the purpose of this act, an article of food 

 shall be deemed misbranded : 



First. If the package or label shall bear any statement purporting to name 

 any ingredient or substance as not being contained in such article, which state- 

 ment shall not be true in any part; or any statement purporting to name the 

 substances of which such article is made, which statement shall not give fully 

 the name or names of all substances contained in any measurable quantity. 



Second. If it is labeled or branded in imitation of or sold under the name 

 of another article, or is an imitation either in package or label of another sub- 

 stance of a previously established name; or if it be labeled or branded so as 

 to deceive or mislead the purchaser or consumer with respect to where the 

 article was made or as to its true nature and substance, or as to any identify- 

 ing term whatsoever whereby the purchaser or consumer might suppose the 

 article to possess any property or degree of purity or quality which the article 

 does not possess. 



Third. If in the case of certified milk, it be sold as or labeled "certified 

 milk," and it has not been so certified under rules and regulations by any 

 county medical society, or if when so certified it is not up to that degree of 

 purity and quality necessary for infant feeding. 



Fourth. If it be misrepresented as to weight or measure or, if where the 

 length of time the product has been ripened, aged or stored, or if where the 

 length of time it has been kept in tin or other receptacle, tends to render the 

 article unwholesome, the facts of such excessive storage, ripening, aging or 

 packing are not plainly made known to the purchaser and to the consumer. 

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