Section 62. Coloring matter, dairy terms, size of package, labeling, false advertising  


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  • No person, manufacturing with intent to sell, any substance  or article to be used as a substitute for cheese and which is  not  made
      exclusively  from  unadulterated  milk or cream or both, with or without
      salt or rennet or both but into which any animal,  intestinal  or  offal
      fats,  or  any  oils  or  fats  or  oleaginous substance of any kind not
      produced from pure, unadulterated milk or cream, or  into  which  melted
      butter,  or  butter in any condition or state or any modification of the
      same, or lard or tallow  shall  be  introduced,  shall  add  thereto  or
      combine  therewith  any  annatto  or compounds of the same, or any other
      substance or substances whatever, for the purpose or with the effect  of
      imparting  thereto  a  color  resembling  yellow, or any shade of yellow
      cheese, nor introduce any such coloring matter or other  substance  into
      any   of  the  articles  of  which  the  same  is  composed.  No  person
      manufacturing, selling or offering for sale any oleaginous substance not
      made from pure milk or cream from the same, designed to take  the  place
      of  butter, shall make or sell the same under any brand, device or label
      bearing words indicative of cows or the product  of  the  dairy  or  the
      names of breeds of cows or cattle, nor use terms indicative of processes
      in  the dairy in making or preparing butter; no oleaginous substance not
      made from pure milk or cream from the same, designed to take  the  place
      of  butter, shall hereafter be sold, offered or exposed for sale in this
      state unless
        (1) such substance is packaged,
        (2) the net weight of the contents of any package thereof  sold  in  a
      retail establishment is one pound or less,
        (3)   there  appears  on  the  label  of  the  package  (a)  the  word
      "oleomargarine" or "margarine" in type or lettering at least as large as
      any lettering on such label, (b) a statement of the net  weight  of  the
      contents  of  the  package, and (c) a full and accurate statement of the
      ingredients contained in such substance, and
        (4) each part of the contents of the package is contained in a wrapper
      which  bears  the  words  "oleomargarine"  or  "margarine"  in  type  or
      lettering not smaller than twenty point type.
      No  person,  firm,  association  or  corporation shall, in connection or
      association with the sale or exposure for sale, advertisement, or on the
      package, of any substance designed  to  be  used  as  a  substitute  for
      butter,  represent  or suggest by any means whatever that such substance
      is a dairy product, except that nothing herein contained  shall  prevent
      an  accurate  statement  of  any  of  the  ingredients contained in such
      substance.