The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-25
FAILURE
To Comply With Law In Re.
gard 10 Butter
viii Result 10 The Arrest o.
Some Dealers

COLUMBUS, ", June ZZ-Ine STATE /
dairy and food department from time
to time is compelled to prosecute deal.
ers In process butter or renovated but.
ter, who fail to comply with the law re-
quiring such butter to be sold under a |
stamp or label containing the words
Renovated Butter" or Process But |
ter" in plain Gothic letters at least
three-eights Of an inch square. The
fine for violation Of this law Is not less
than $4,000 nor more than $4,000 for
the first ofYense and for the second
offense not less than $4,000 nor more
than 100000, or Imprisonment not less
than thirty days nor more than sixty
days, or both. Some dealers sell this
renovated or process butter for dairy
butter, which is a distinct violation Of
the law.
For the information Of all dealers
and the public at large. the depart
ment has deemed 1t best to define what
is meant by the different kinds Of but
ter. The National law divides butter
into three classes.
This first class is defined to be, "A
food product usually known as butter,
which is made exclusively from milk or
cream, or both, with or without CON-
mon salt, and with or without addi-
tional coloring matter" All butter
which does not come under the terms
of this definition, therefore, necessari.
ly falls into one of the other two class
es.
The second class Is defined as, "A
grade of butter produced by mixing,
reworking, rechurning in milk or
cream, refining, or in any way pro-
ducing uniform, purified. or improved
product from different lots or parcels
of melted or unmelted butter or butter
fat, in which any acid, alkali, chemical,
or other substance is introduced for
the purpose of removing rancidity;" or
"any butter or butter fat with which
there Is mixed any substance foreign
to butter as herein defined, with the in.
tention of cheapening the product, or
any butter in the manufacture or man
ipulation Of which any material Is used
with intent to cause the absorption Of
abnormal quantities Of water, milk OF
cream"
The third class Of butter Is defined
as process or renovated butter and II
the grade which has been subjected
+. to any process by which 1t is melted
clarified, or refined and made to re
semble genuine butter.
Butter of the first and third classes
are the only ones that can be legally
sold IN Ohio. Butter Of the second
class are considered as adulterationi
> and cannot be sold legally in Ohio.
The department Is sometimes asket
whether product is made by mixing
or reworking different lots or parcel'
9 of butter so as to secure a uniform
product, can be legally sold. The an
b swer TO this question is, yes, provid
ing that none of the butter enterinl
into the uniform product is rancid O
> comes in the class of adulterated but
ter.
Butter of the first class can be sol
without any card or designation Of an
kind. This includes the so-calle
country creamery butter, dairy but
ter and the like, but butter Of tn
third class, known as renovated bu
ter, carnot be sold except 1t Is labele
j or stamped renovated butter"
What is known as merged butte
cannot be sold legally under an
name or circumstances in the stat
as it is simply an adulteration.
n At q meeting of the grocers
h Cleveland recently. following an a.
" dress made by Commissioners Strod
10 gentleman who had been prosecute
I. by the department for selling renova
,r ed butter or process butter as dali
II. butter, complained because he WI
M fined and pleaded that he had nj
v. been fairly treated. It was not
Is worthy that this man received
n. sympathy at all from the grocers
In Cleveland. The law is SO clear aI
Ar distinct upon this question that 1t
,e not possible for any one to make
"a. mistake in the sale Of process butt
ia. for dairy butter. II he will take a m
NJ msnts time for investigation. The d
Of partment is always lenient upon q
m side of honest mistakes, but 1t Is q
CO policy of the department to prosecu
an all violators of the law, whose evide
nd intention 1t Is to profit by the 50
n of renovated butter for creamery
lb- dairy butter. This practice is unfit
NV to all honest dealers and unfair al
to the producers Of creamery a
dairy butter. The law requires hi
Z these different grades can be sold a
. the interest of the public and all hi