MILK.

SEC. 1. Standard measure for milk and cream. From and after the approval of this act, the standard measure of milk and cream in this State shall be fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths cubic inches for each and every quart thereof; and when sold, with no special agreement as to the measurement thereof, the quart shall consist of fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths cubic inches.

Approved March 4, 1907. Laws of 1907, ch. 167, p. 319.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GENERAL FOOD LAW.

SEC. 10. Weights and measures.

No person shall sell or offer for sale anywhere in the District of Columbia, any provisions or produce or commodities of any kind for a weight or measure greater than the actual or true weight or measure thereof; and all provisions, produce, or commodities of any kind shall when sold by weight or measure, be weighed by scales, weights, or balances, or measured in measures duly tested and sealed by the sealer or an assistant sealer of weights and measures: Provided, That berries, when offered for sale in an original package or basket containing a standard measure, may be sold in said package or basket without the same having been first tested and sealed; but in no case shall said basket be refilled for use in the sale of berries or produce of any kind whatsoever: And provided further, That poultry and vegeta bles, usually sold by the head or bunch, may be offered for sale and sold in other manner than by weight or measure; but in all cases where the person intending to purchase shall so desire and request, poultry shall be weighed, as hereinbefore prescribed: And provided further, That scales reported not in use shall be sealed down, and said seal shall not be broken except by authority of the sealer of weights and measures.-As amended June 20, 1906, Statutes of the United States of America, 1905-1906, pt. 1, ch. 3444, pp. 315-316; and as further amended January 22, 1907, United States Statutes at Large, 1905–1907, pt. 1, ch. 384, p. 854. See Bul. 104, p. 20.

United States Statutes at Large, 1893-1895, vol. 28, ch. 179, p. 812.

REGULATIONS OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

Washington, April 5, 1907.

Ordered: That "An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome food and the distribution of medicinal and poisonous substances in the District of Columbia," adopted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, January 2, 1902, and amended April 21, 1903, is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following regulation, to be known as section Twelve:

Every manager of a store, market, cafe, lunch-room, or of any other place where a food or a beverage is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, which store, cafe, lunch-room, or other place is in operation at the time of the promulgation of this regulation, shall, on or before July 1, 1907, register his full name, and the location of said store, market, cafe, lunch-room, or other place, and the nature of the business transacted, in a book to be kept in the health office for that purpose; and every manager of a store, market, cafe, lunch-room, or other place where a food or beverage is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, that is

first opened for business after the promulgation of this regulation shall, within five days after the opening of said store, market, cafe, lunch-room, or other place, register in like manner. In event of a change in the manager or in the location of any store, market, cafe, lunch-room, or other place aforesaid, the manager thereof shall call at the health office within five days after such change takes place and make.a corresponding entry. Any person who violates the provision of this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. Official copy furnished Health Officer. By order:

W. TINDALL,

Secretary.

ORDERED:

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
Washington, May 31, 1907.

That, pursuant to the authority vested in the Commissioners by the " Joint Resolution authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to alter, amend, or repeal certain health ordinances" approved February 28, 1899, “An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome food in the cities of Washington and Georgetown" as amended by Commissioners' order of January 2, 1902; April 21, 1903; October 6, 1904 and April 24, 1906, is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following:

SEC. 13. Every manager of a store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or of any other place in the District of Columbia where a food, or a beverage, or confectionery, or any similar article, is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall cause it to be screened effectually so as to prevent flies and other insects from obtaining access to such food, beverage, confectionery, or other article, and shall keep such food, beverage, confectionery, or other article free from flies and other insects at all times. Any person violating the provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. This regulation shall take effect from and after the expiration of thirty days immediately following the date of its promulgation.

SEC. 14. Every manager of a store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or of any other place in the District of Columbia where a food, or a beverage, or confectionery, or any similar article, is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall equip said store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or other place, with running water, or other proper water supply if running water be not available, and with facilities and material for the proper washing, and shall cause such washing to be done, of the hands of all persons employed therein, and for the proper cleansing, and shall cause such cleansing to be done, of said store, market, dairy, cafe, lunch room, or other place, and of all apparatus, utensils, and materials used in connection therewith. Any persons violating the provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. This regulation shall take effect from and after the expiration of thirty days immediately following the date of its promulgation.

Official copy furnished Health Officer, D. C.
By Order:

W. TINDALL, Secretary.

FLORIDA.

GENERAL FOOD LAWS.

SEC. 1. Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, keep or offer for sale within the State of Florida, any article of food, drugs, medicine or liquors which is adulterated or misbranded, or which contains any poisonous or deleterious substance within the meaning of this act; and any of the persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense shall, upon conviction theref, be fined not to exceed one thousand dollars, or shall be sentenced to not more than one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and for each subsequent offense, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars or sentenced to not more than two years' imprisonment or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. Examination of samples; prosecution. The examination of specimens of food and drugs shall be made by the State Chemist of Florida, or under his direction and supervision, for the purpose of determining from such examination whether such articles are adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, and if it shall appear from any such examination that any of such specimens is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the act, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall cause notice thereof to be given to the party from whom such sample was obtained; any party so notified shall be given an opportunity to be heard before the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Attorney General under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by them, and if it appears that any of the provisions of this act have been violated by such party, then the Commissioner of Agriculture shall at once certify the facts to the proper prosecuting attorney, with the copy of the results of the analysis, or the examination of such article duly authenticated by the analyst or officer making such examination, under the oath of such officer. In case it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Attorney General that the violation of this act is properly a subject of interstate commerce or otherwise comes under the supervision and jurisdiction of the United States, then the Commissioner of Agriculture shall certify the case to the United States District Attorney in whose district the violation may have been committed, but if it be under the jurisdiction of the courts of this State, then the Commissioner shall certify the case to the proper prosecuting attorney of the court in the county where the offense occurred. It shall be the duty of the proper prosecuting attorney to prosecute all persons violating any of the provisions of this act as soon as he receives the evidence transmitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture. After judgment of the court, notice shall be given by publication in such manner as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations aforesaid.

SEC. 3. "Food" defined. * ** * The term "food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment by man or other animal, whether simple, mixed or compound.

SEC. 4. Adulteration defined. For the purpose of this act, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated

In case of food:

First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.

Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article.

Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.

Fourth. If it be mixed, colored or powdered, coated or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed.

Fifth. If it contains any added poisonous or other deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health; Provided, That when in preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by any external application applied in such manner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically, or by maceration in water or otherwise and directions for the removal of said preservative are printed on the covering of the package, the provisions of this act shall be construed as applying only when said products are ready for consumption.

Sixth. If the package, vessel or bottle containing it shall be of such a composition, or carry any attachment made of such a composition or metal or alloy as will be acted upon in the ordinary course of use by the contents of the package, vessel or bottle in such a way as to produce an injurious deleterious or poisonous compound.

Seventh. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter.

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SEC. 5. Misbranded" defined. The term “misbranded" as used herein shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device regarding such articles or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug product, which is falsely branded, as to the State, Territory or country in which it is manufactured or produced. For the purpose of this act an article shall also be deemed to be misbranded

In case of food:

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First. If it be an imitation of, or offered for sale under the distinctive sale of another article.

Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser. or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or is an imitation in package or label of another substance of a previously established name, or, if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or, if it fail to bear a statement on the label in conspicuous letters of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta," cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, eucaine or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein.

Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of package.

a So in Statutes.