FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 261 



it shall appear that the said establishment complies with the 

 provisions of the Sanitary Law and the rules and regulations 

 governing egg breaking establishments, then the said Food Com- 

 missioner shall certify to the State Treasurer that the said es- 

 tablishment is entitled to a license. 



Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the breaking 

 of eggs, and whose establishment has been inspected and ai^- 

 proved, as above described, shall pay annually during the month 

 of December of each year a license fee of Three Hundred Dollars 

 ($300) for each establishment to the Treasurer of the State of 

 Illinois. Said Treasurer shall in each case at once certify to the 

 State Food Commissioner the payment of such fee, and there- 

 upon the State Food Commissioner shall issue a license to such 

 establishment. 



It shall be unlawful for any one to have in his possession 

 eggs known as ''yolks stuck to the shell," "heavy blood rings," 

 ''partially hatched," "moldy eggs," "black spots," "black rots," or 

 any other unwholesome eggs, unless the same are broken in 

 shell and then denatured, so as to render the same unfit for 

 human food. 



Every egg breaking establishment, when it has received its 

 license, shall be furished with an identifying establishment 

 number. Said number shall be included as part of the proper 

 labeling of all cans or other receptacles in which frozen or dessi- 

 cated egg products are offered for sale. The form and manner 



of placing said number on containers shall be under rules and 



reguhitions promulgated by the State Food Coniiuissioner. 



Brokers, commission men, or ordinary iev;ei\ers of eggs who 

 have eggs shipped to them in these "breaking stock" identified 

 cases, may break the seal and examine the stock, but they must 

 rcseal the identified strip where it is cut, Vs^'th another identify- 

 ing strip which carries their name and address and the date of 

 which they inspected the eggs. They will be held responsible 

 for any tampering of the contents of the identified case. 



Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this section, 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as pre- 



