Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-20
CHEESE LAW.
Text OF the Pennsylvania Enactment to
Secure Honest Marking.

Text OF the Pennsylvania Enactment to
Secure Honest Marking.
The cheese trade everywhere will be
interested in knowing the provisions of
the Pennsylvania law enforcing the
calling of the different cheeses by exact
ly their right names. twill be observed
that the law is hard after those knaves
who have ruined the cheese trade of
America by putting on the market the
yillainous article called filed cheese.
A law similar to that of Pennsylvania
will be welcomed by honest cheesemak-
ers in all the states. Here is the enact
ment:
Section 1. Be it enacted, ETC., that no person,
firm or corporate body shall manufacture,
SELL offer for sale or have in his or their pos
session, with intent to sell, any cheese not the
legitimate product of pure, unadulterated
milk or cream, or any cheese into which any
foreign fats or substances have been intro
duced. as may appear upon proper test.
Sec. 2. All cheese manufactured or sold
within this commonwealth shall be divided
into five grades and shall be branded or stem
ciled in ordinary bold faced capital letters, not
less than one inch in height, on two sides of
each cheese and upon the top and bottom of
lux VI CdS0 COuldlu1llR tu6 CuSOS6, Uu0 luduu-
facturer's name and postoffice address, and
the words Full Cream" 'Three-fourths
Cream 'sOne-half Cream" "One- fourth
Cream and SKINNED Cheese" All cheese
branded s'Full Cream shall contain not less
than 80 per cent of butter fat, as may appear
by proper test. All cheese branded "Three
fourths Cream shall contain not less than
"a per cent of butter fat, as may appear by
proper test. All cheese branded "One-half
GraarnD shall contain mot IpSs than ia Tlar cent
of butter fat, as may appear upon proper test
All cheese branded ''Onefourth Cream" shall
contain not less than 8 per cent of butter fat,
may appear upon proper test. And all
cheese containing less than per cent of butter
fat, as may appear upon proper test, shall be
branded SKINNED Cheese"
Sec. 8. Every person, firm or corporation
who shall violate any of the provisions of this
act shall, fer every such offense, forfeit and
pay the sum of not less than $50 nor more than
500, together with all charges and expenses
for inspection and analysis connected there
with, by any person suing therefor in the
name of the commonwealth. as debts of like
amount are by law recoverable, and justices of
the peace and aldermen throughout this com
monwealth shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine all actions arising under the pro-
visions Of this act, and all cheese not in ac-
cordance with this act shall be subject to for
fixture and spoliation, provided that the de-
partment of agriculture, through it's officer
known as the dairy food commissioner, to-
gether with his deputies, agents and assist
ants, shall be charged with the enforcement
of the provisions of this act and shall have
authority to enter any building or factory
where the same is sold or manufactured or
exposed for sale, and shall have the right to
take samples sufficient for analysis upon ten
dering the value thereof. All fines and penal
ties, including also all charges for inspection
and analysis, shall be. paid to the dairy and
food commissioner, his deputies, agents or as
sistants and by him Immediately covered into
the state treasury, and so much of said fund
as may be necessary for the enforcement of
this act shall be drawn out upon warrants
signed by the secretary of agriculture and
auditor general, provided that the provisions
of this act shall not be construed to apply to
such cheese as is known as Clancy cheese
and is under five pounds in weight each, or
to what is known as cottage cheese or pot
cheese, and do not contain anything injurious
to health.