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Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



Illinois Dairy and Food Laws. 



In Force July 1, 1907 



An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their imi- 

 tation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufac- 

 ture and sale of unhealthful, adulterated or misbrandeci 

 food, liquors or dairy products, to provide for the appoint- 

 ment of a State Food Commissioner and his assistants to 

 define their powers and duties and to repeal all acts relating 

 to the production, manufacture and sale of dairy and food 

 products and liquors in conflict herewith. 



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

 Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: 



Provision for appointment of a State Food Commissioner 

 and the establishment of a State Food Department. That the 

 Governor shall appoint a commissioner, who shall be known as 

 the State Food Commissioner, who shall be a citizen of the State 

 of Illinois, and who shall hold his office for the term of four 

 years and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and who 

 shall receive a salary of thirty hundred dollars per annum and 

 his necessary expenses incurred by him in the discharge of his 

 official duties, and who shall be charged with the enforcement of 

 all laws that now exist or that hereafter may be enacted in this 

 State regarding the production, manufacture, sale and labeling 

 of food herein defined, and to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted 

 any person, firm or corporation, or agent thereof, engaged in 

 the manufacture or sale of any article manufactured or sold in 

 violation of the provisions of any such law or laws. The Gov- 

 ernor shall also' appoint from time to time, as required, a Food 

 Stanard Commission, for the purpose of determining and 

 adopting standards of quality,, purity or strength, for food 

 products, for the State of Illinois, to consist of thiee members, 

 one of whom shall be the State Food Commissioner or his reprc 

 sentative, who shall serve without extra pay ; one of whom shall 

 be a representative of the Illinois Food Manufacturing Indus- 

 tries and one of whom shall be an expert food chemist of known 



