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MA Gen L ch 94 § 61 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 61 - Lard; Sale; Advertising; Labeling

Section 61. No person shall sell, deliver, prepare, put up, expose or offer for sale any lard, or any article intended for use as lard, which contains any ingredient except the pure fat of swine, in any tierce, bucket, pail or other vessel or wrapper, or under any label bearing the words ''pure'', ''refined'', ''family'', or either of them, alone or in combination with other words; but each vessel, wrapper or label in or under which such article is prepared, put up or exposed for sale, sold or delivered by him shall bear on the top or outer side thereof, in letters not less than one half inch in length and plainly exposed to view, the words ''compound lard''. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 61a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 61a - Cheddar or American Cheese; Cheese Made From Milk of Sheep or Goats

Section 61A. The kind of cheese known as Cheddar cheese, American cheese or American Cheddar cheese, may be sold under the designation ''cheese'', without qualification, and, unless its definition and standard is otherwise fixed by the laws of the commonwealth or by the department of public health under section one hundred and ninety-two, shall comply with the definitions and standards promulgated by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Cheese made from the milk of sheep or goats shall be labelled as being so made, unless it bears a name designated by the laws of the commonwealth or by said department under said section one hundred and ninety-two, or, if not bearing a name as aforesaid, by the definitions and standards of said Food and Drug Administration.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 62 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 62 - Interference With Inspector of Milk or Collector of Samples of Milk; Penalty

Section 62. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with an inspector of milk or collector of samples of milk in the performance of his duties under section sixty, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of fifty dollars and for a subsequent offence by a fine of one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 63 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 63 - Disposition of Fines

Section 63. All fines recovered under sections fifty-five to fifty-eight, inclusive, shall be paid to the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65g - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 65g to 65u

Section 65G. For the purposes of sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:—  ''Department'', the department of public health.  ''Frozen desserts'', ice cream, French ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, sherbet, water ice, quiescently frozen confection, quiescently frozen dairy confection, frozen dietary dairy dessert and any imitation frozen dessert.  ''Frozen dessert mix'', any unfrozen mixture to be used in the manufacture of frozen desserts or milk shakes.  ''Imitation frozen dessert'', any frozen substance, mixture or compound, regardless of the name under which it is sold or exchanged, or offered or exposed for sale or exchange, or advertised, which is made in imitation or semblance of any frozen dessert, or is prepared or frozen in the manner in which any frozen dessert is customarily prepared or frozen, and which is not ice cream, French ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, sherbet, water ice, quiescently frozen confection or quiescently frozen dairy confection as manufactured in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the department under section sixty-five U.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65i - Issuance of Licenses or Permits for the Manufacture or Sale of Frozen Desserts and Frozen Dessert Mix

Section 65I. The local board of health, if satisfied after inspection that the plant referred to in an application for a license or a permit, as the case may be, is maintained in accordance with the standards of sanitation prescribed in the rules and regulations promulgated by the department, may grant to any suitable applicant therefor a license, or may certify to the department an application for a permit when said local board has been requested by the department to make such an inspection. No license or permit shall be issued if any statement in the application is false or misleading, or if the brand name or any label or advertisement of the frozen dessert or of the frozen dessert mix referred to in the application gives a false indication of its origin, character, composition or place of manufacture, or is otherwise false or misleading in any particular. No person shall engage within the commonwealth in the business of manufacturing frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix without a license so to do from the board of health of the town where his plant is or is to be located, and no person engaged in the business of manufacturing frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix without the commonwealth shall sell any such product within the commonwealth without a permit from the department.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65j - Revocation or Suspension of Licenses or Permits

Section 65J. Any license may be revoked by the local board of health which issued it, and any permit may be revoked by the department, after notice to the holder of the license or permit by mail or otherwise and opportunity to be heard, if it appears that any statement in reliance upon which such license or permit, as the case may be, was issued was false or misleading, or for violation of any of the provisions of the license or permit or of said sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive.  Any license may be suspended by the local board of health which issued it, and any license or permit may be suspended by the department, after similar notice and hearing and for any of the foregoing reasons, until the holder of such license or permit complies with the conditions prescribed by the department for its reinstatement.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65k - Certiorari to Correct Errors of Law

Section 65K. Any person aggrieved by a decision of a local board of health or of the department in refusing to grant or to reinstate, or in revoking or suspending, a license or permit, as the case may be, may, within fifteen days after the entry of such decision, bring a petition in the supreme judicial court for a writ of certiorari to correct errors of law therein, and the provisions of section four of chapter two hundred and forty-nine shall, except as herein provided, apply to said petition. No costs shall be allowed against the local board of health or the department, as the case may be, unless the court finds that it acted with gross negligence or in bad faith.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65l - Certain Sales or Exchanges Prohibited

Section 65L. (a) No person shall sell or exchange, deliver, advertise, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or attempt to deliver, or have in his possession with intent so to do, any frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix unless the manufacturer thereof is the holder of a license or permit then in full force.  (b) No person shall sell or exchange, offer for sale or exchange, or advertise for sale, any frozen dessert or ice cream mix, if the brand name of the frozen dessert or ice cream mix or the label upon it or the advertising accompanying it shall give a false indication of its origin, character, composition or place of manufacture, or is otherwise false or misleading in any particular. The above shall not prohibit the sale of a frozen dietary dairy dessert authorized to be manufactured and sold under section sixty-five T.  (c) No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale ice milk, unless contained in a package, or enclosed in a wrapper, upon which shall be conspicuously printed in the English language the words ''Ice Milk'' in letters not smaller than eight point type and which letters shall be larger than any other lettering upon the package or wrapper. No person shall offer for sale, or sell, any ice milk if the purchaser has requested ice cream.  [There is no paragraph (d) or (e).]  (f) No person shall sell or exchange, or deliver or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or attempt to deliver, or have in his possession with intent so to do, frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix in a package, wrapper or other covering which does not legibly bear the name of the manufacturer or distributor of said frozen dessert and/or frozen dessert mix and/or the plant identification code number assigned by the department and/or a brand, trade or corporation name set forth in the manufacturer's application for a license or permit, or subsequently recorded with the local board of health or the department issuing the same.  This section and sections sixty-five M to sixty-five S, inclusive, shall not apply to any frozen dessert and/or frozen dessert mix in the course of interstate commerce.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65m - Pasteurization

Section 65M. All milk, cream and milk products used in the manufacture of frozen desserts, or frozen dessert mix, or the entire mix with or without flavor or color shall be pasteurized in accordance with rules and regulations of the department.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65n (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65n - Manufacture or Sale of Frozen Dessert or Frozen Dessert Mix in Unclean, etc., Places or Manner

Section 65N. No person shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver, or attempt to deliver, or have in possession with intent so to do, frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix which have been manufactured in unclean, unsanitary or unhealthful premises or in an unclean, unsanitary or unhealthful manner, nor shall any person manufacture, or sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver, or attempt to deliver, or have in possession with intent so to do, frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix in any unclean, unsanitary or unhealthful premises or in any unclean, unsanitary or unhealthful manner.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65o (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65o - Manufacture or Sale of Nonconforming or Adulterated Frozen Desserts or Frozen Dessert Mix Prohibited

Section 65O. Frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix shall be deemed to be adulterated:  First. If containing any preservative, mineral or other substance or compound deleterious to health; provided, that this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the use of harmless coloring matter when not used for fraudulent purposes; or  Second. If made in whole or in part from, or containing frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix for any reason unfit for food.  No person shall manufacture, sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver, or attempt to deliver, or have in his possession with intent so to do, any frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix not conforming to the regulations adopted by the department under section sixty-five U, or manufactured, sold, exchanged and/or delivered in violation of any provision of section sixty-five N, or adulterated within the meaning of this section.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65p (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65p - False Labeling

Section 65P. (a) No person shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver or attempt to deliver, frozen desserts in any container which is falsely labeled as to the name of the manufacturer or place of manufacture, or in any other respect.  (b) No person shall misrepresent in any manner the name of the manufacturer or the place of manufacture of frozen desserts.  (c) No person shall use or cause to permit to be used, for the purpose of preserving or holding frozen desserts, any cabinet, can, container or other equipment owned in whole or in part by any other person, without the written consent of such owner.  (d) No person shall place any frozen desserts of one manufacturer in the cabinet, can, container or other equipment belonging in whole or in part to another manufacturer.  (e) No person, other than the owner or a person thereto authorized by him, shall remove, erase, obliterate, cover or conceal the owner's name or any distinguishing mark or device which may appear or be placed on any such cabinet, can, container or other equipment.  (f) Except where otherwise provided in sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive, the provisions of sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, shall apply to frozen desserts and to frozen dessert mix, and to any materials intended for use, or used, in the manufacture thereof.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65q (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65q - Enforcement of Secs. 65g to 65u; Rules and Regulations

Section 65Q. The department, and the local boards of health within their respective jurisdictions, shall enforce sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive. The department shall from time to time, after inquiry and public hearing, adopt, amend and promulgate rules and regulations to supplement and give full effect to the provisions of said sections. Such rules and regulations shall, in addition to any other subjects, establish bacterial standards for frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix, hereinafter referred to as products, sanitary regulations pertaining to the manufacture and distribution of such products, including the sanitary condition of premises and buildings wherein such products are manufactured, and the sanitary condition of containers in which such products are held or shipped. Such rules and regulations shall be filed at the office of the department and of each of the boards of health within the commonwealth, shall be open for public inspection, and shall have the force of law.  Local boards of health may make rules and regulations relative to such products not inconsistent with rules or regulations of the department, or with law.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65r (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65r - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 65g to 65q

Section 65R. Whoever violates any provision of sections sixty-five G to sixty-five Q, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, shall for the first offense be punished by a fine of not less than fifteen nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, and for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65s (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65s - Fees for Licenses and Permits

Section 65S. The fees for licenses and permits shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the following:—  License for retail manufacturer for each plant.  License or permit for wholesale manufacturer, to manufacture within the commonwealth or to sell within the commonwealth, as the case may be. In every case where the department requests an inspection of the premises of the applicant to be made by a local board of health, the local board shall comply with said request.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65t (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65t - Frozen Dietary Dairy Desserts; Rules and Regulations

Section 65T. The department shall promulgate regulations establishing standards of identity for frozen dietary dairy desserts. The department may also establish regulations pertaining to the manufacture and sale of frozen dietary dairy desserts.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 65u (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 65u - Rules and Regulations for the Manufacture, Sale and Labeling of Frozen Desserts and Frozen Dessert Mixes

Section 65U. The department shall adopt regulations establishing standards of identity and labeling requirements for frozen desserts and frozen dessert mixes, and shall adopt regulations for the manufacture and sale of frozen desserts and frozen dessert mixes. The regulations adopted by the department establishing the standards of identity and labeling requirements shall not conflict with definitions and standards established by federal regulations and affecting frozen desserts.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 66 - Licensing of Cold Storage Warehouses; Report of Articles in Cold Storage

Section 66. No person shall maintain a cold storage or refrigerating warehouse without a license issued by the department of public health. Any person desiring such a license may make written application to such department, stating the situation of his plant. Upon receipt of the application the said department shall cause an examination of the sanitary condition of the plant to be made, and if it is found to be in a sanitary condition and otherwise properly equipped for the business of cold storage, said department upon receipt of a license fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, shall cause a license to be issued authorizing the applicant to maintain therein a cold storage or refrigerating warehouse for one year. If any warehouse or any part thereof, licensed under this section, is deemed by said department to be conducted in an unsanitary manner, it shall close such warehouse or part thereof, until it has been put in sanitary condition, and said department may also suspend the license if the required changes are not made within a reasonable time. Each such licensee shall submit to the department of public health on or before the fifteenth day of each month, a report on a printed form to be provided by said department, stating the quantities of articles of food placed in cold storage during the month preceding, and also the quantities of articles of food held on the first day of the month in which the report is filed or such other day as the commissioner of public health may from time to time fix.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 66a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 66a - Application of Secs. 66, 70 and 71 to Food in Lockers; Locker Defined

Section 66A. Neither the provisions of section sixty-six which require licensees maintaining cold storage or refrigerating warehouses to make reports to the department of public health nor the provisions of section seventy or seventy-one shall apply with respect to articles of food received or stored in any locker in any such warehouse. The word ''locker'', as used in this section, shall mean any separate and individual compartment in any such warehouse, having a capacity of not more than twenty-five cubic feet, which is provided for use by an individual under lease or otherwise for the sole purpose of storing or freezing articles of food owned by him and intended for use and consumption by him or his family.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 67 - Inspection and Supervision; Rules and Regulations

Section 67. Boards of health of towns within their towns shall inspect, and the department of public health shall inspect and supervise all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses and shall make such inspection of the entry of articles of food therein as they deem necessary to secure proper enforcement of the laws relative to cold storage. The department may make rules and regulations to secure a proper enforcement of sections sixty-six to seventy-two, inclusive, and ninety-two.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 94 - Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles|Section 68 - Access to Cold Storage or Refrigerating Warehouses by Department, Etc.

Section 68. The department of public health and local boards of health, their agents, inspectors or employees shall be permitted access to each establishment mentioned in the preceding section, and to all parts thereof at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspection and enforcement of any provision of law relative to food products.