238 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



SANITARY FOOD LAW. 



An Act to prevent the preparation, manufacture, packing, stor- 

 ing, or distributing of food intended for sale, or sale of 

 food, under insanitary, unhealthfid or unclean conditions or 

 surroundings, to create a sanitary inspection, to declare that 

 such conditions shall constitute a nuisance, and to provide 

 for the enforcement thereof. 



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

 nois, represented in the General Assembly : That every building, 

 room, basement, inclosure or premises, occupied, used or main- 

 tained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, 

 slaughter house, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, gro- 

 cery, meat market, or as a factory, shop, warehouse, any public 

 place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, 

 manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribution of any food 

 as defined by statute, which is intended for sale, shall be prop- 

 erly and .adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, 

 and shall be conducted with strict regard to the influence of 

 such conditions upon the health of the operatives, emplo3^es. 

 clerks, or other persons therein employed, and the purity ancV 

 wholesomeness of the food therein produced, prepared, manu- 

 factured, packed, stored, sold or distributed. 



Section 2. The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, furniture, recep- 

 tacles, implements and machinery of every such establishment or 

 place where such food intended for sale is produced, prepared, 

 manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars 

 trucks and vehicles used in the transportation of such food pro- 

 ducts, shall at jio time be kept or permitted to remain in an un- 

 clean, unhealthful or insanitary condition; and for the purpose 

 of this Act, unclean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions shall 

 be deemed to exist if food in the process of production, prepara- 

 tion, manufacture, packing, storing, sale, distribution or trans- 

 portation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, and, as 



