298 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



OLEOMARGARINE LAW. 



AN ACT to regulate the Manufacture and Sale of Substitutes for 

 Butter. 



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

 ois, represented in the General Assembly : That for the purpose 

 of this Act, every article, substitute or compound or any other 

 than (that) which is produced from pure milk or cream there- 

 from, made in the semblance of butter and designed to be used 

 as a substitute for butter made from pure milk or its cream, is 

 hereby declared to be imitation butter: Provided, that the use 

 of salt and harmless coloring matter for coloring the product of 

 pure milk or cream shall not be construed to render such product 

 an imitation. 



Section 2. No person shall coat, powder or color with 

 annato or any coloring matter whatever, any substances designed 

 as a substitute for butter, whereby such substitute or product so 

 colored or compounded shall be made to resemble butter, the 

 product of the dairy. 



No person shall combine any animal fat or vegetable oil or 

 other substance with butter, or combine therewith, or with animal 

 fat or vegetable oil, or combination of the two, or with either one, 

 any other substance or substances, for the purpose or with the 

 effect of imparting thereto a yellow color or any shade of yellow 

 so that such substitute shall resemble yellow or any shade of gen- 

 uine yellow butter, nor introduce any such coloring matter or 

 such substance or substances into any of the articles of which 

 the same is composed: Provided, nothing in this Act shall be 

 construed to prohibit the use of salt, rennet and harmless coloring 

 matter for coloring the products of pure milk or cream from the 

 same. 



No person shall, by himself, his agents, or employes produce 

 or manufacture any substance in imitation, or semblance of natu- 

 ral butter, nor sell nor keep for sale, nor offer for sale any imita- 



