45:7-64 - Embalming compounds - New Jersey Statutes

45:7-64.  Embalming compounds    The sale or use for embalming purposes within the State of New Jersey of any  fluid containing arsenic, zinc, mercury, copper, lead, silver, antimony, chloral, or cyanogen, or any compound containing any of said substances, or any  poisonous alkaloid is prohibited.  The board shall have power, by rules and  regulations, to provide for appropriate tests to be made of all brands of embalming compounds sold or used within this State or intended for sale or use within this State, and shall disapprove for such sale or use any such compounds  that, upon such tests, are determined to contain any substance herein  prohibited.  The board shall have power to publish a list of such compounds  that, upon such tests, are determined to comply with the provisions of this  section.  Nothing in this section contained shall prohibit the use by any  association incorporated under article four of chapter nine of Title 45 of the  Revised Statutes, of any substance for the preservation of dead bodies which  have legally come into its possession.

     L.1952, c. 340, p. 1113, s. 33.