DAIRY FARM SCORE CARD OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. [As approved by the bureau for use under California conditions.] DAIRY FARM SCORE CARD.

Note 1.-If any exceptionally filthy condition is found, particularly dirty utensils, the total score may be further limited.

Note 2.-If the water is exposed to dangerous contamination, or there is evidence of the presence of a dangerous disease in animals or attendants, the score shall be 0.

SEC. 15. The purpose of this act is to amend and supersede an act 2 entitled "An act to prevent the sale of impure and unwholesome milk, to grade milk, to provide rules and regulations therefor, and to empower cities, groups of cities, counties and groups of counties, or cities and counties, to establish inspection service; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions hereof; and to make an appropriation therefor," which is hereby repealed. Slaughtering-Inspection of Animals-Fees-Marking of Carcasses. (Ch. 224, Act May 11, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Any person, firm or corporation in the State of California, engaged in the slaughtering of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, desiring to have the healthfulness of the meat and meat food products of such animals certified to, may make application for the inauguration of an inspection service in such establishment. Said application shall be in writing addressed to the State veterinarian of California, and shall be made on blanks which will be furnished by said State veterinarian. In such application such applicant for inspection shall agree to comply with the provisions of this act and to maintain said establishment in a clean and sanitary manner. Upon receipt of said application the State veterinarian shall make an inspection of said establishment and if found clean and sanitary, and properly equipped to conduct its business in a clean and sanitary manner, he shall inaugurate an inspection service therein, and shall give to such establishment an official number, and this number shall be used to mark the meat and meat food products of the establishment as hereinafter provided. Such an establishment shall thereafter be known as “Official Establishment No. ......

SEC. 2. The cost of such inspection service shall be borne by the establishment where it is maintained and shall be paid for in the following manner: When, in the opinion of the State veterinarian, the volume of business is sufficient to occupy the continuous services of one inspector, such establishment shall pay a fee of $150 per month. When, in the opinion of the State veterinarian, the services of more than one inspector are required to properly carry on the work, the fee in such cases shall be $150 per month for the first inspector, and $125 per month for each additional inspector. When, in the opinion of the State veterinarian, the inspection work in two or more neighboring establishments can be properly supervised by one inspector, said State veterinarian may, in such cases, prorate the fees among such establishments, but in no instance where only one inspector is employed to supervise the work in more than one establishment shall the aggregate fees be less than $150 per month, and in no such instance shall the individual fees be less than $50 per month. All such fees shall be paid during the first week of January, April, July and October of each year and they shall be paid in advance for the ensuing three months. Such fees shall be paid to the State veterinarian, who shall at least as often as once each month and oftener if required to do so, report to the State controller the total amount of fees collected, and at the same time he shall pay into the State treasury the entire amount of said receipts. All such receipts shall be credited to the meat hygiene fund, which fund is hereby created, out of which shall be paid the salaries of inspectors who are appointed in accordance with the provisions of this act, as well as other expenses that may be incurred incidental thereto. In no instance, however, shall any of the fees collected as provided herein be refunded. The State veterinarian is hereby authorized to appoint such inspectors as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. All slaughtering in each official establishment shall be conducted between the hours of seven o'clock a. m. and seven o'clock p. m. of any one week day, unless a special permit in writing or by telegram, authorizing slaughtering at any other time,

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is granted by the State veterinarian. The manager or other person in charge of such establishment shall inform the inspector when work has been concluded for the day, and of the day and hour when work will be resumed. Where one inspector is detailed to conduct the work at two or more establishments where few animals are slaughtered. the inspector may designate the hours for work.

SEC. 4. In each official establishment an ante mortem examination shall be made of all cattle, sheep, swine and goats about to be slaughtered, and satisfactory facilities shall be provided for conducting such examinations, and for separating and holding apart from passed animals those that are unfit for immediate slaughter.

SEC. 5. In each official establishment a careful inspection shall be made of all animals at the time of slaughter. The head and tongue, tail, thymus gland, and all viscera, and all parts and blood used in the preparation of meat food and medicinal products shall be retained in such a manner as to preserve their identity until after the post-mortem examination has been completed. Carcasses and parts thereof found to be sound, healthful, wholesome and fit for human food shall be passed and marked in the following manner: Upon all passed carcasses and parts thereof slaughtered in an official establishment the inspector shall place a mark bearing the words "Cal. Inspected and Passed." This mark shall also contain the official number of the establishment. The number of such marks that shall be affixed and their location on the carcasses and parts thereof shall be determined by the State veterinarian. Each carcass or part thereof, which is found on post-mortem inspection to be unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food shall be marked conspicuously by the inspector at the time of inspection with the words "Cal. Inspected and Condemned," and such carcass or part thereof shall, under the supervision of the inspector, be rendered unfit for human consumption in some manner approved by the State veterinarian.

SEC. 6. The State veterinarian shall, from time to time, make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of this act, and all inspections and examinations made under this act shall be such and made in such manner as described in the rules and regulations prescribed by said State veterinarian not inconsistent with the provisions of this act: Provided, however, That in making such rules and regulations said State veterinarian shall be guided by the regulations governing meat inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation except the inspector as herein provided, to have in possession, keep or use any mark, stamp or brand provided or used for marking, stamping or branding any article herein required to be marked, stamped or branded. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have in possession, keep, make or use any mark, stamp or brand having thereon a device or words similar in character or import to the marks, stamps or brands provided or used for marking, stamping or branding such articles, and any violation hereof shall be deemed a misdemeanor.

Eggs Which Have Been in Transit 31 Days or More-Sale. (Ch. 173, May 5, 1917.)

SECTION 1. For the purpose of this act the words "person, firm, company or corporation" shall include wholesalers, retailers, jobbers, and every person, firm, company or corporation owning, operating or conducting any place of business where eggs are sold or offered for sale.

SEC. 2. Every person, firm, company or corporation who sells, offers for sale, or has in his or their possession for sale, or consigns, ships or presents to any dealer, commission merchant, consumer, or other person, any egg or eggs which said egg or eggs is or were produced at any place requiring 31 days or more to transport the eggs to the selling point, shall, before so doing, cause to be stamped, marked or branded upon the container thereof in black-faced letters not less than one-half of an inch in height the word "storage."

SEC. 3. Every person, firm, company or corporation selling or offering for sale any eggs which were produced at any place requiring 31 days or more to transport the eggs to the selling point, prior to the date of sale or offering for sale, shall display in a conspicuous place in his or their public salesroom a sign which shall not be less than 1 foot in height and 6 feet in length, bearing the words "storage eggs sold here" in blackfaced letters not less than 6 inches in height and 1 inch in width upon a white ground. SEC. 4. Every person, firm, company or corporation who receives eggs that have been produced at any place requiring 31 days or more to transport the eggs to the selling point, prior to their sale or offering for sale, shall, immediately thereafter report to the State board of health the number of eggs received, the date when received and the place where such eggs were produced, and the name of the person, firm, company or corporation to whom sold.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the State board of health to enforce the provisions of this act, and to that end the said board may make necessary rules and regulations. SEC. 6. Every person, firm, company or corporation who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months; or by a fine of not more than $200, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Shellfish-Taking from Contaminated Sources Prohibited-Duties of State Board of Health. (Ch. 48, Act Apr. 5, 1917.)

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful to take oysters, clams, quahaugs, mussels or other shellfish used or intended to be used for human consumption from any tidal waters, flats, areas or sources from which the taking of such shellfish shall be determined to be a menace to health as hereinafter provided.

SEc. 2. The State board of health may and is hereby empowered to examine any tide waters, flats, areas or sources from which oysters, clams, quahaugs, mussels or other shellfish may be taken, and to determine whether such waters, flats, areas or sources are subject to sewage contamination, and to determine whether the taking of such shellfish from such waters, flats, areas or sources does or may constitute a menace to the lives and health of human beings. Upon the determination by said State board of health that such waters, flats, areas or sources are or may be subject to sewage contamination and that the taking of shellfish therefrom does or may constitute a menace to the lives and health of human beings, said board shall ascertain as accurately as may be the bounds of such contamination, and shall cause the posting of notices prohibiting the taking of shellfish from such sources and describing the bounds of the tidal flats, waters, areas or sources from which the taking of shellfish shall be unlawful. The fact of the posting of such notices shall be published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which such waters, flats, areas or sources are situated, if there be one, and if there be none, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State board of health to enforce the provisions of this act and its inspectors and employees are hereby empowered to enter upon public or private property upon which shellfish may be located at all times for the purposes of this act.

SEC. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500 or by imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, but such penalties shall not be incurred until the fact of such prohibition shall have been published for four successive weeks, as above provided. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

Foods and Drugs-Standard of Purity-Analyses-Condemnation. State Laboratory-Establishment-Appointment and Duties of Officers. (Ch. 781, Act June

1, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act entitled "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods and liquors and regulating the traffic therein, providing penalties, establishing a State laboratory for foods, liquors and drugs and making an appropriation therefor," approved March 11, 1907, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The standard of purity of food and liquor shall be that proclaimed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. Nothing in this section contained shall authorize or permit any adulteration of any food or liquor because the standard of purity of such food or liquor shall not be proclaimed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 2. Section 9 of said act approved March 11, 1907, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 9. For the purpose of this act there is hereby established a State laboratory for the analysis and examination of foods and drugs, which shall be under the supervision of the State board of health, which laboratory shall be located at such place as the State board of health may select. The State board of health shall appoint a director of said laboratory, consulting nutrition expert, and an assistant to such direc tor, all of whom shall be skilled pharmaceutical chemists and analysts of foods and drugs. Said director shall perform all duties required by this act and which shall be required by the State board of health. Said consulting nutrition expert shall at all times be ready for consultation with, give advice to, and perform duties in connection with the director of said laboratory, and shall at all times be under the supervision of and perform such duties under this act as are required by the State board of health. As a part of his duties he shall consult and advise with the State board of control concerning standards of purity and other matters relating to foods and drugs purchased by the State of California for any or all of its institutions. The assistant shall be urder the supervision of the director and shall perform all duties required of him by the director and by the State board of health.

The director shall receive an annual salary of $3,600, the consulting nutrition expert shall receive an annual salary of $1,200 and the assistant to the director shall recei e an annual salary of $1,800. All such salaries shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as the salaries of State officers.

The State board of health, out of the appropriation hereinafter provided, and out of the funds derived from the operation of this act, may employ and fix the compensation of other and additional clerical and professional assistants.

SEC. 3. Section 10 of said act approved March 11, 1907, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 10. The State board of health or its secretary, shall cause to be made by the said director of the State laboratory, or under his supervision, examinations and analyses of food and liquor on sale in California, suspected of being adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded at such times and places and to such extent as said board or its secretary may determine, and may appoint such agent or agents as it may deem necessary, and the sheriffs of the respective counties of the State are hereby appointed and constituted agents for the enforcement of this act, and any agent or sheriff shall have free access, at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of examinaing any place where it is suspected that any article of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods exist, and such agent or sheriff upon tendering the market price of said articles, if a sale be refused, may take, from any person, firm or corporation samples of any articles suspected of being adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded, and shall