220 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Food and Dairy Law. 



An Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of substitutes for 

 butter. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 

 nois, represented in the General Assembly : That for the pur- 

 pose of this Act, every article, substitute or compound or any 

 other than (that) which is produced from pure milk or cream 

 therefrom, made in the semblance of butter and designed to be 

 ■used as a substitute for butter made from pure milk or its cream 

 is hereby declared to be imitation 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. 



Sec. 2. No person shall coat, powder or color with annato 

 or any coloring matter whatever, any substance designed as a 

 substitute for butter, whereby such substitute or product so col- 

 ored or compounded shall be made to resemble butter, the product 

 of the dairy. 



No person shall combine any animal fat or vegetable oil or 

 other substance with butter, or combine therewith, or with animal 

 fat or vegetable oil, or combination of the two, or with either one, 

 any other substance or substances, for the purpose or with the 

 effect of imparting thereto a yellow color or any shade of yellow 

 so that such substitute shall resemble yellow or any shade of 

 genuine yellow butter, nor introduce any such coloring matter 

 or such substance or substances into any of the articles of which 

 the same is composed. 



Provided, Nothing in this Act 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. 



No person shall, by himself, his agents, or employes produce 

 or manufacture any substance in imitation or semblance of nat- 



