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several articles which are foods or the necessary constituents of 

 food, which are manufactured for sale or sold or exposed or 

 offered for sale in this State, and he may in a lawful manner pro- 

 cure samples of the same, and direct the State analyst to make due 

 and careful examination of the same, and report to the commis- 

 sioner the result of the analysis of all or any such food or dairy 

 products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome, in contra- 

 vention of the laws of this State, and it shall be the duty of the 

 commissioner to make complaint against the manufacturer or 

 vender thereof in the proper county, and furnish the prosecuting 

 attorney with the evidence thereon and thereof to obtain a con- 

 viction for the offense charged. The food commissioner, or his 

 assistants, or any person by him duly appointed for that purpose, 

 shall have power in the performance of their duties to enter any 

 dairy, creamery, cheese factory, store, salesroom, warehouse 

 (excepted bounded warehouses for the storage of distilled 

 spirits), where goods are stored or exposed for sale, or place 

 where they have reason to believe food is stored or offered for 

 sale, and to open any cask, tub, jar, bottle or package containing 

 or supposed to contain any article of food, and examine or cause 

 to be examined the contents thereof, and take therefrom samples 

 for analysis. The person making such inspection shall take such 

 samples of such articles of produce, in the presence of at least one 

 witness, and he shall, in the presence of such witness, mark or 

 seal such sample and shall tender, at the time of taking, to the 

 manufacturer or vender of such produce, or to the person having 

 the custody of the same, the value thereof, but if the person from 

 whom such sample is taken shall recjuest him to do so, he shall, at 

 the same time and in the presence of the person from whom such 

 property is taken, securely seal up two samples of the article 

 seized or taken, the one of which shall be for examination or 

 analysis under the direction of the commissioner, and the other of 

 which shall be delivered to the person from whom the article was 

 taken. Any person who shall obstruct the commissioner or any 

 of his assistants by refusing to allow him entrance to any place 

 which he desires to enter in the discharge of his official duty, or 



