THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 189 



ILLINOIS DAIRY AND FOOD LAW. 



AN ACT to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their 

 imitation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufac- 

 ture and sale of unhealthful, adulterated or misbranded food, 

 liquors or dairy products, to provide for the appointment of a 

 State Food Commissioner and his assistants, to define their 

 powers and duties and to repeal all Acts relating to the pro- 

 duction, manufacture and sale of dairy and food products and 

 liquors in conflict herewith. 



Section i. 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 a term of four years 

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

 receive a salary of thirty-six 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 as herein defined, and to prosecute or cause to be prose- 

 cuted 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 

 Governor shall also appoint from time to time, as required, a 

 Food Standard 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 three members, 



(*Enacted 1907 and amended 1909 and 191 1.) 

 one of whom shall be the State Food Commissioner or his rep- 

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

 shall be a representative of the Illinois food manufacturing in- 



