of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry with the State live-stock sanitary board in the variou

SEC. 5. Test of cattle; disposition of condemned react to the tuberculin test or show marked diagno culosis shall be condemned and branded with the lett and be disposed of as directed by the live-stock sanita be any revenue derived from cattle condemned unde if they exceed the amount allowed the residue shall b SEC. 6. Penalty for violation of this act.—That any tion violating any of the provisions of this act, or any tions of the live-stock sanitary board, relative to the of tuberculosis, made and promulgated under this a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be nor more than $300, or imprisonment in the county months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

2 This sentence reads the same as in the session laws.

SEC. 4. In connection with every bakery a suitable room or rooms shall be provided for the changing and hanging of the wearing apparel of the workers or employees, which shall be separate and apart from the work, storage, and sales rooms, and shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

SEC. 5. No person shall sit, lie, or lounge or be permitted to sit, lie, or lounge upon any of the tables, shelves, boxes, or other equipment or accessories used in connection with the production, preparation, packing, storing, display, or sale of bakery products. No animals or fowls shall be kept in or permitted to enter any bakery.

SEC. 6. Before beginning the work of preparing, mixing, or handling any ingredients used in the production of bakery products every person engaged in such work shall wash the hands and arms, and after using toilets or water-closets every person therein engaged shall wash the hands and arms thoroughly and then rinse in clean water; and for this purpose the owner or operator of the bakery shall provide sufficient facilities.

SEC. 7. No owner or operator of a bakery shall require or permit any person affected with any contagious, infectious, or other disease or physical ailment which may render such employment detrimental to the public health or any person who refuses to submit to the examination required in section 8 to work therein.

SEC. 8. The commissioner of public health or the commissioner of health or the chief health officer in the several cities and towns may require any person intending to work or working in a bakery to submit to thorough examination for the purpose of ascertaining whether he is afflicted with any contagious, infectious, or other disease or physical ailment. All such examinations shall be made without charge to the person examined and at the expense of the department or board making the same. Any person so examined may have his physician present at the examination, which may be made by any competent physician duly registered and licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth. SEC. 9. The floors, walls, and ceilings of every bakery, the equipment used in the handling or preparation of bakery products or their ingredients, and the wagons, boxes, baskets, and other receptacles in which bakery products are transported, shall be kept by the owner or operator of the bakery or by the distributor of said products in a clean and sanitary condition and at all times free from dirt and dust, flies, insects, and other contaminating matter. Shipping baskets and other containers for transporting bakery products shall be kept clean and, whenever the property of a distributor or dealer, shall not be used for the shipment of products to any other person or concern.

SEC. 10. All show cases, shelves, and other places where bakery products are sold shall be kept by the dealer well covered, properly ventilated, adequately protected from dust, flies, and other contaminating matter, and shall at all times be maintained in a sweet, clean, and wholesome condition.

SEC. 11. Boxes or other permanent receptacles or containers for the storing, receiving, or handling of bakery products shall be so placed and constructed as to be beyond the reach of contamination from streets, alleys, and sidewalks, or from animals, and shall be kept by the dealer clean and sanitary. No other articles shall be placed therein along with said products and no person shall tamper with, injure, or contaminate said boxes, receptacles, or containers, remove anything therefrom, or place anything therein, other than the baker or dealer or their employees.

SEC. 12. All bakery products and their ingredients shall be stored, handled, transported, and kept in such manner as to protect them from spoilage, contamination, disease, and unwholesomeness. No ingredient or material, includ

ing water, shall be used therein which is spoiled or contaminated or which may render the product unwholesome, unfit for food, or injurious to health.

SEC. 13. No ingredient shall be used in any bakery product likely to deceive the consumer or which lessens its nutritive value without being plainly labeled, branded, or tagged, or having a sign making plain to the purchaser or consumer the actual ingredients: Provided, however, That in case of unwrapped bread to be sold by the loaf, such labeling, branding, or tagging shall be placed upon the same label, as hereinafter provided, which shows the name of the manufacturer and the net weight of the loaf. Said ingredients and the sale or offering for sale of said products shall otherwise comply with the provisions of chapter 2087 of the general acts of 1917.

SEC. 14. No bakery products, except as hereinafter provided, shall be returned from any consumer or other purchaser to the dealer or baker, nor from any dealer to the baker, and no baker or dealer shall directly or indirectly accept any returns or make any exchange of bakery products from any dealer, restaurant or hotel keeper, consumer, or other person. All such products shall be kept moving to the consumer without unreasonable delay and without any exchange, return, or practice whatsoever which may disseminate contamination or disease or inflict fraud upon them, among consumers, or disseminate "rope," so called, or other infection in bakeries, or which may cause waste in the food supply: Provided, That this section shall not apply to crackers or other bakery products which are packed at the place of production in cartons, cans, boxes, or similar permanent containers, and which are so packed and sealed at such place as fully to insure their freshness and wholesomeness and protect them from contamination, adulteration, and deterioration in the course of trade, and which remain in the original unbroken package as packed, except in so far as may be necessary to prevent waste in the food supply: And provided further, That “permanet containers" shall not be construed to include the paper or parchment wrappers used in wrapping loaves of bread.

SEC. 15. The department of public health may, by rule, establish such exemptions as may be necessary to facilitate the sale of any accumulated or unsold stocks of wholesome bakery products, and in other cases not inconsistent with the purposes of this act.

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SEC. 18. If, after inspection, it is found that a bakery is not constructed, maintained, operated, or the distribution of its products not conducted in accordance with this act, notice in writing shall be given to the owner or manager, stating the delinquency, and fixing a reasonable time within which the same shall be remedied and for a hearing to any party in interest.

SEC. 19. In case a bakery is unfit for the production and handling of food or dangerous to the health of its employees, the department of public health or local board of health may order it closed: Provided, That any aggrieved person or corporation shall have the right to be heard before said department, or board, as the case may be, and shall also have a right of appeal, before or after the execution of such order, but within 30 days of its issuance, to the superior court.

SEC. 20. Within 60 days after the taking effect of this act, every bakery in the commonwealth shall be registered with the board of health of the city or town in which it is situated. The registration shall show its situation, including street and number, and its ownership. The board shall forthwith report such registration to the department of public health. No fee shall be charged for such registration.

7 Supplement 37 to Public Health Reports, p. 212.

SEC. 21. No new bakery shall be established unless the building plans and equipment proposed to be used have been approved by the board of health of the city or town. Said board shall refuse a permit to such bakery if the building and equipment do not comply with the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations made hereunder: Provided, however, That any party in interest shall have the right of appeal to the department of public health or to the superior court. Said department or court may affirm, reject or modify the findings of the board, and the said board shall thereupon proceed in accordance with the order of the court or department.

SEC. 22. Violation of any provision of this act, or of any rule or regulation adopted hereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.

SEC. 23. Sections 3 to 7, inclusive, of chapter 57 of the Revised laws, as amended by chapter 197 of the acts of 1908, by chapter 191 of the acts of 1909, and by chapter 157 of the General Acts of 1916, sections 28 and 31 of chapter 75 of the Revised Laws, and chapter 258 of the General Acts of 1915, are hereby repealed.

Bakeries and Bakery Products-Sanitation and Regulation. (Reg. Dept. of Pub. H., 1920.)

REGULATION 1. All bakery products sold within this Commonwealth shall have been prepared in bakeries conforming with the provisions of this act [chapter 418 of Acts of 1920] and with the regulations made thereunder.

REG. 2. The provisions of section 2 of this act, empowering the boards of health of cities and towns to enforce its provisions and these regulations under the supervision of the department of public health, shall apply to all sections except section 4, section 16, section 17; that part of section 3 relating to employees' wash sinks and toilets, except direct connection of said toilets with bakery; and that part of section 19 relating solely to health of employees; but said boards shall act under said section 19 on all complaints received thereunder from the department of labor and industries relating solely to the health of the employees.

REG. 3. The boards of health of all cities and towns, themselves or by their officers or agents, shall inspect no less than twice a year each bakery engaged in the manufacture of bakery products under their jurisdiction, and shall make a record of each such inspection upon a form devised by the department of public health.

The said boards shall, on or before the 15th of each month, make a report to the department of public health, stating the number of bakeries inspected, a summary of the defects found, and the number and character of notices sent under the provisions of section 18, together with the names and addresses of the bakeries involved. If no report is received by the department of public health, said department may assume that no inspection has been made during the preceding month.

Duplicate copies of all notices of hearings sent under the provisions of section 18 shall be submitted to the department of public health, and said department, by its officers or agents, may be present, and if so requested by the board of health shall be present at such hearings.

Duplicate copies of all notices sent under the provisions of section 19, ordering bakeries to be closed, shall be sent to the department of public health. Boards of health shall, upon request, receive assistance from the department of public health for the enforcement of any provisions of this act.

8 Reprint 338 from Public Health Reports, p. 276.

it. It is unlawful to deface, mutilate, cover up, or the authority of the health officer, or to interfere

his agent."

The placard shall not be less than 6 inches in widt In the case of scarlet fever the color of the diphtheria, blue; and of smallpox, yellow. For all shall be white.

RULE 14. Disregard of quarantine rules.—In case visions for modified quarantine or observation, or an tions of the health officials relating thereto, are viola board of health or health officer may enforce ful quarantine, when in their opinion the public safety r RULE 15. To quarantine persons in need.-When a is, in the opinion of the health officer, unable to obt other actual necessities, it shall be the duty of the h findings to the proper town, city, or county authorit fail at once to supply the needed care it shall be the to supply such quarantined person with medical a actual necessities, and the expense incurred in per constitute a legal expense of the health officer.

RULE 16. Danger in infecting foods.-When a ca fever, or paratyphoid fever, or a person who is a diseases, or when a case of epidemic or septic sore th cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever any farm or in any dairy producing or handling milk, cheese, or other foods likely to be consumed raw, other place where such foods are produced, handled shall be sold or delivered from such farm, dairy, or the following conditions: