82 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



failure of any officer, agent or other individual acting for or employed by any 

 partnership, corporation, company, society, or association within the scope ot 

 his employment or office, shall in every case be, also deemed the act, omission, 

 or failure of such partnership, corporation, company, society, or association, as 

 well as that of the individual. 



SEC. 14. Seizure and condemnation. Any person, firm, or corporation who 

 shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale any article of food that is adulterated 

 within the meaning of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and in addi- 

 tion to being subject to the penalties already provided in this act, the article of 

 food shall be subject to seizure and condemnation, followed by sale or de- 

 struction. 



Approved March 14, 1908. Acts of 1908, ch. 372, pp. 654-659. 



CONFECTIONERY. 

 See General Food Laws, sec. 6, page 79. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



SEC. 11. Investigation of creameries, cheese and milk factories, etc.; assist- 

 ants. It shall be the duty of the dairy and food commissioner to foster and 

 encourage the dairy industry of the State, and, for that purpose he shall investi- 

 gate the general conditions of the creameries, cheese factories, condensed milk 

 factories, skimming stations, milk stations and farm dairies in this State, with 

 full power to enter upon any premises for such investigation, with the object in 

 view of improving the quality and creating and maintaining uniformity of the 

 dairy products of the State; and should it become necessary in the judgment of 

 the dairy and food commissioner, he may cause instruction to be given in any 

 creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, skimming station, milk sta- 

 tion or farm dairy, or in any locality of this State, and in order to secure the 

 proper feeding and care of cows, or the practical operation of any plant pro- 

 ducing dairy products, and in order to procure such a uniform and standard 

 quality of dairy products in this State, he shall furnish a sufficient number of 

 competent assistants, the appointment of whom is provided for in section four 

 of this act, and they shall be duly qualified to act as such assistants. 



SEC. 12. Penalty for furnishing unclean milk to factories. Whenever it is 

 determined by the dairy and food commissioner, his deputy or assistants, that 

 any person is using, selling or furnishing to any skimming station, creamery, 

 cheese factory, condensed milk factory, milk depot, farm dairy, milk dealer, 

 the retail trade or to any consumer of milk, any impure or unwholesome milk 

 or cream, which impurity or unwholesomeness is caused by the unsanitary or 

 filthy conditions of the premises where cows are kept or by the unsanitary or 

 filthy care or handling of the cows, or from the use of unclean utensils or from 

 unwholesome food, or from any other cause, the person so using, selling or 

 furnishing to any skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk 

 factory, milk depot, farm dairy, milk dealer, the retail trade or to any con- 

 sumer of milk, any such milk or cream, shall first be notified and warned by the 

 said commissioner, his deputy or assistants not to use, sell or furnish such milk 

 or cream to such skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk 

 factory, milk depot, farm dairy, milk dealers, the retail trade or to any con- 

 sumer of milk, and any person failing to obey such notice and warning and 

 continuing to use, sell or furnish to any skimming station, creamery, cheese 



