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PROVISIONS FOR INSPECTION OF "RENOVATED OR PROCESS 



BUTTER. 



Sec. 5. All parts of Act providing for an inspection of meats for ex- 

 portation, approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and of 

 an Act to provide for the insepction of live cattle, hogs, and the car- 

 casses and products thereof which are the subject of interstate com- 

 merce approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of 

 amendment thereto approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 five, which are applicable to the subjects and purposes described in this 

 section shall apply to process or r enovated butter. And the Secretary 

 of Agriculture is hereby authorized and required to cause a rigid sanitary 

 inspection to be made, at such times as he may deem proper or neces^- 

 sary, of all factories and storehouses where process or renovated butter is 

 manufactured, packed or prepared for market, and of the product there- 

 of and materials going into the manufacture of the same. All' process or 

 renovated butter and the packages containing the same shall be marked 

 with the words "Renovated Butter" or "Process' Butter" and by such other 

 marks, labels or brands and in such manner as may be prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and no process or renovated butter shall be 

 shipped or transported from its place of manufacture into any State or 

 Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, until 

 it has been marked as provided in this section. The Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shalL make all needful regulations for carrying this section in- 

 to effect, and shall cause to be ascertained and reported from time to time 

 the quantity and quality of process or renovated butter manufactured, 

 and the character and the condition of the material from which it is made. 

 And he shall also have power to ascertain; whether or not materials 

 used in the manufacture of said process or renovated butter are deleter- 

 ious to health or unwholesome in the finished product, and in case such 

 deleterious or unwholesome materials are found to be used in product in- 

 tended for exportation or shipment, into other states, or in course of 

 exportation or shipment, he shall have power to confiscate the same. 

 Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this 

 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemanor and en conviction there- 

 of shall be punished by a fine of not less than, fifty dollars nor more than 

 five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not less than one month nor 

 more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of 

 the court. 



