196.710. Emulsified cream and filled milk prohibited. - Missouri Statutes

Emulsified cream and filled milk prohibited.

196.710. It shall be unlawful to use the article known asemulsified cream in milk, or in any milk product, or any purposewhatsoever. It is hereby declared that filled milk, andemulsified cream as herein defined, are adulterated articles offood injurious to the public health and its sale constitutes afraud upon the public. It shall be unlawful for any person, firmor corporation to manufacture or ship or deliver to any personwithin this state any filled milk or emulsified cream.

(RSMo 1939 § 14064)

Prior revision: 1929 § 12411

(1940) This section forbids sale of filled milk only if the resulting product is in imitation or semblance of milk, cream or skim milk. Thus wholesome and nutritious product under label stating nature of product and that it is "not to be sold for evaporated milk" may be sold without violating this section. State ex rel. McKittrick v. Carolene Products Co., 346 Mo. 1049, 144 S.W.2d 153.