Statutes of Massachusetts relative to the adulteration of food and drugs / published by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, Health Department.
- Massachusetts. State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statutes of Massachusetts relative to the adulteration of food and drugs / published by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Xj .A. W S RELATIVE TO SPECIAL ARTICLES OF FOOD. [Tho older statutes relative to the weights and measures of sundry articles, and the local inspection of the same, containing much material pertaining to commercial inspection, and irre- levant to the subject of adulteration are omitted from this resume, with the exception of the statutes relative to milk and provisions and animals intended for slaughter.] OF THE INSPECTION AND SALE OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS. Appointment of inspectors of milk. Public Statutes, chap. 67, § 1. Their duties and powers. 1S84, 310, §3. 11 Allen, 264. 1. The mayor and aldermen of cities shall, and the selectmen of towns may, annually appoint one or more persons to be inspectors of milk for their respective places, who shall be sworn before entering upon the duties of their office. Each inspector shall publish a notice of his appointment for two weeks in a newspaper published in his city or town, or if no newspaper is pub- lished therein, he shall post up such notice in two or more public places in such city or town. 2. Such inspectors shall keep an office, and shall record in books kept for the purpose the names and place of business of all persons engaged in the sale of milk within their cit}r or town. Said inspectors may enter all places where milk is stored or kept for sale, and all per- sons engaged in the sale of milk shall on the request in writing of an inspector deliver to the person having the request, a sample or specimen sufficient for the purpose of analysis of the milk then in his possession from such](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22381831_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
