WYOMING. GENERAL FOOD LAWS. SEC. 11. Power of commissioner. The Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner is hereby given power to confiscate such goods as may be condemned by order of the court, upon proper inspection and analysis by the State Chemist. SEC. 12. Interference with commissioner. Any person or persons interfering with the Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner in the discharge of his duties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, nor imprisonment for more than ninety days in jail, or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. SEC. 13. Repeal. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, or any part thereof, are hereby repealed. SEC. 14. Effect. This act shall take effect and be in force from and 'after the first day of April, 1907. Approved February 20, 1907. Session Laws of 1907, ch. 91, p. 157. SEC. 6. Intent to defraud. Whoever puts up or packs any goods or articles sold by weight in any case or package and fails or omits to mark thereon the net weight thereof, in pounds and fractions of pounds, or with intent to defraud, or in any way transfer any brand, mark, or stamp, put upon any case or package, by any manufacturer to any other case or package, or with like intent repack any case or package marked with a brand, mark or stamp of any manufacturer, with goods or articles inferior to the goods or articles of that manufacturer, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.-As amended February 20, 1907, Session Laws 1907, ch. 91, p. 157. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, p. 696. Laws of 1903, ch. 82, art. 8, p. 112. SEC. 1. Dairy, food, and oil commissioner. The office of Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner for the State of Wyoming is hereby created. Such Commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, and his term of office shall be for four years, from the first day of April, 1907, and vacancies occurring in the office for any cause shall be filled by appointment for the balance of the unexpired term. The salary of the Commissioner shall be $2,000.00 per annum, together with his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duty, which shall be paid in the same manner as other state officers.-As amended January 21, 1907 Session Laws 1997, ch. 2, pp. 4-5. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, pp. 696–697. Approved February 18, 1905. Session Laws of 1905, ch. 49, pp. 89-90. SEC. 1. Labeling. After the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful in the State of Wyoming for the packer, wholesale or retail dealer, or any other person who may sell or offer for sale in any respect whatever, preserved or canned fruits and vegetables, or other articles of food, unless such articles bear a mark to indicate the grade or quality, together with the name and address of such person, or corporation that packed the same.-As amended February 20, 1907, Session Laws 1907, ch. 91, p. 155. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, p. 699. Laws of 1903, ch. 82, art. 6, p. 109. SEC. 2. Assistant chemist; salary; duties. The Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming is hereby authorized and empowered to employ an assistant to the regular professor of chemistry, who shall receive a salary of sixteen hundred dollars per year for his services, to be paid by the State of Wyoming out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the same to be paid by the State Auditor in the manner provided for the payment of other accounts against the State. The Assistant Chemist shall keep his office at the University of Wyoming, and the Board of Trustees of said University shall furnish the necessary room for the carrying out of the provisions of this act. The Assistant Chemist shall perform such duties as he may be required to perform by the State Chemist.-As amended February 20, 1907; Session Laws of 1907, ch. 91, p. 153. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, p. 694. Laws of 1903, ch. 82, art. 1, p. 102. SEC. 8. Adulteration defined. Any article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act- * * * (b) In case of foods or beverages: (1) If it contains any form of aniline dyes, or of coal tar dyes; (2) if colored with a harmless vegetable dye, and the name thereof is not given on the label; (3) if it contains formaldehyde, benzoic acid, sulphurous acid, boric acid, salicylic acid, hydrofluoric acid, saccharin, betanapthol, or any salt or antiseptic compound derived from these products; (4) if any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity; (5) if any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (6) if any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (7) if it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of another article; (8) if it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not, or, in case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal; (9) if it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; (10) if it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health. Provided, That an article of food or beverage shall not be deemed adulterated in the following cases: First-If it be a mixture or compound of recognized food products or ingredients of food products not included in definitions seven and eight of division "b" of this section, provided each and every package sold or offered for sale be distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds with the name and per cent therein and are not injurious to health; Provided, This provision shall not be construed to authorize the use of artificial coloring matter or preservatives. Second-In the case of candies and chocolates, if they contain no terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral substances or analine dyes or other coal tar dyes or other poisonous colors, flavors, or products detrimental to health. Third-If in the case of baking powders or any mixture or compound intended for use as a baking powder they have affixed to each and every box, 33163-Bull. 112, pt 2-08-10 can or package containing such powder or like mixture or compound, a light colored label upon the outside and on the face of this there is distinctly printed with black ink and in clear, legible type no smaller than eight-point heavy Gothic caps and name and address of the manufacturer and the words, 'This baking powder is composed of the following ingredients and none others,' and immediately after said words shall be printed in the above style and type the true and common name of each and all ingredients contained in or constituting a component part of such baking powder mixture or compound, and provided said baking powder or like mixture or compound shall not involve less than eight per cent of its weight of carbon dioxid upon boiling with pure water. Fourth-In the case of perishable goods put up in bulk, sodium benzoate may be used in proportion not to exceed one part in twelve hundred in such products and' under such regulations as may be determined upon and proclaimed by the Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner. This clause shall not be applicable to any case at any time when products can be commercially produced without the use of chemical preservatives. Where the use of preservatives is permitted, the fact shall be clearly set forth on this label in the form and manner as prescribed by the Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner.-As amended February 20, 1907; Session Laws 1907, ch. 91, pp. 153-154. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, p. 694. Laws of 1903, ch. 82, art. 1, p. 102. BAKING POWDER. See General Food Laws, page 145. CANDY. See General Food Laws, page 145. MEAT. SEC. 3. Sale of undrawn meats unlawful. Every person who shall sell, offer, or expose for sale for human food, any slaughtered or dressed poultry, game birds, or game animals, wild or domestic of any description, or fish, from which the entrails, crops, and other objectionable or offensive parts have not been drawn and removed immediately after the same has been killed or slaughtered for market, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than two hundred dollars, and in addition, the court may in its discretion order the confiscation and destruction by the Commissioner of any or all such products, sold or offered for sale. SEC. 4. Fine. Every dealer in slaughtered fresh meats, fish, fowl, or game for human food, at wholesale or retail, at any established place or as a peddler, in the transportation of such food from place to place to customers, shall protect the same from dust, flies, or other vermin or substances which may injuriously affect it, by securely covering it while being so transported. Any person or corporation convicted of violation of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and in addition thereto, the goods in controversy may be ordered confiscated and destroyed by the Dairy, Food and Oil Commissioner at the discretion of the court. Approved February 20, 1907. Session Laws 1907, ch. 91, p. 155. PRESERVATIVES. See General Food Laws, page 145. VINEGAR. SEC. 5. Adulteration; labeling. No person shall manufacture for sale or offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell within the State of Wyoming, any vinegar found, upon proper test, to contain any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric or other mineral acid or other ingredients injurious to health, or any foreign coloring matter, and all packages containing vinegar shall be branded on the head of the cask, barrel, keg, or jug, or any other container containing such vinegar, or if sold in other packages that each package be plainly marked with the name and residence of the manufacturer, together with the brand required in the provisions of this act.-As amended February 20, 1907; Session Laws of 1907, ch. 91, p. 155. See Bul. 69, Rev., Pt. VIII, pp. 703-704. Laws of 1903, ch. 82, art. 6, p. 109. APPENDIX. NEW YORK. DAIRY PRODUCTS. 32.a Unclean receptacles and places for keeping milk; notice to violators of provisions. No person, firm, association or corporation, producing, buying or receiving milk for the purpose of selling the same for consumption as such, or for manufacturing the same into butter, cheese, condensed milk, or other human food, shall keep the same in utensils, cans, vessels, room or rooms, building or buildings that are unclean or have unsanitary surroundings or drainage, or in any condition whatsoever that would tend to produce or promote conditions favorable to unhealthfulness or disease. The commissioner of agriculture shall notify all persons, firms, associations or corporations, violating this section, to clean said utensils, cans, vessels, room or rooms, building or buildings, or to so improve the sanitary conditions that the law will not be violated, and if such notice is complied with in ten days' time, Sundays excepted, then no action shall lie for a violation of this section. Any person or persons having charge of any milk gathering station where milk is bought or received from the dairymen for the purpose of selling the same for consumption or shipping the same to market for consumption as human food before taking such charge or operating or working as such agent or person in charge shall apply to the commissioner of agriculture for a license to so work or operate or have charge, and shall at the time of making such application, file with the commissioner a statement under oath, setting forth the fact that he will not while having charge of or operating any such milk gathering establishment or while employed therein adulterate or suffer or permit the adulteration of any such milk or any product thereof during the term for which he may be licensed. After the applicant shall have complied with the foregoing provisions of this section, the commissioner of agriculture upon being satisfied that the applicant is a person of good moral character and a qualified and proper person to so have charge of or operate any such milk gathering station or establishment shall issue to said applicant a license, which shall qualify him to have charge of any such milk gathering station or establishment for the period of two years from the date of such license. The person regularly doing the work of receiving, caring for and shipping the milk at any station or establishment, or in case more than one person is so employed then the foreman in charge of such work shall be deemed to be a person in charge of such station or establishment within the meaning and purposes of this section. Such license certificate shall be kept at such station or establishment where the licensee is so employed and shall be open to the inspection of the representatives of the department of agriculture and the public. Any person or persons having charge of any milk gathering station or establishment as aforesaid, shall keep a true and correct daily record of the receipts of milk or Also amended April 19, 1907, but not included in this compilation, as this later amendment evidently repeals the former, though not so stated in Statutes, |