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MA Gen L ch 94 § 152 (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 152 - Publication of Facts Relating to Condemnation of Animal or Property

Section 152. The board of health of the town where any animal or property has been condemned under section one hundred and forty-six may cause a description of the place in which such condemned property was found, the name of each person in whose possession it was found and the name of each person convicted of an offence under the three preceding sections to be published in two newspapers published in the county where such property was found.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 152a (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 152a - Licensing Business of Buying, Selling or Transporting Live Poultry

Section 152A. No person or business entity shall engage in the business of buying, selling or transporting live poultry unless he shall have first obtained a license therefor from the commissioner of food and agriculture, the fee of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provisions of section three B of chapter seven. Such license shall expire on December thirty-first in the year or part thereof in which such license was issued and may be revoked by the commissioner of food and agriculture for cause and after notice and hearing in the manner provided by chapter thirty A. Such cause shall include, but not be limited to, violations of section one hundred and fifty-two B. All licensees under this section shall keep and maintain, for a period of one year, records of each transaction including dates, names and addresses of both seller and purchaser and number and species of poultry so bought, sold or transported. Said commissioner of food and agriculture may make regulations governing the issuance of such licenses as well as sanitation requirements for all trucks, crates, coops and other conveyances to be so utilized.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 152b (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 152b - Transportation of Live Poultry; Prohibited Equipment; Cleanings and Disinfections; Permits

Section 152B. The use of wooden crates, containers or coops in the transportation of live poultry to or from farms is hereby prohibited. No truck, cage, crate, coop or other conveyance may enter a farm or livestock sale establishment for the purpose of delivering or removing live poultry or eggs unless such truck, cage, crate, coop or other conveyance is in a clean and sanitary condition. All such equipment used in conjunction with any market or sale point shall be cleaned and disinfected daily prior to the start of business. All such equipment coming into the commonwealth shall be cleaned and disinfected prior to its entry therein. The owner or operator of such equipment shall maintain and have in his possession a record of all such cleanings and disinfections.  A permit shall be issued by the division of animal health prior to the entry into the commonwealth of any live poultry or other fowl, including day-old chicks and poults. Such permits may be obtained by telephone and shall include the number, species, age of the animals to be transported and the name and address of both source flock and purchaser.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 152c (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 152c - Penalties for Violations of Secs. 152a and 152b

Section 152C. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and fifty-two A or one hundred and fifty-two B shall be punished, for a first offence, by a fine of not not more than one hundred dollars and, for any subsequent offence, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 153a (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 153a - Labeling of Meat Products Containing Sulphur Dioxide; Penalties

Section 153A. Whoever himself or by his agent sells or offers for sale any meat or meat product to which has been added any sulphur dioxide or compound thereof, except beef sausage made of fresh beef and enclosed in casings, which contains sulphur dioxide or compound thereof not in excess of 1–10 of 1%, when calculated as anhydrous sodium sulphite, if contained in a package which has conspicuously labelled on the outside thereof in not less than eight point type the following:—''contains not more than 1–10 of 1% sodium sulphite,'' shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifteen nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 154 (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 154 - Labeling of Canned Goods; Grade; Quality

Section 154. Canned articles of food shall not be offered for sale unless marked to indicate the grade or quality thereof and the name and address of the person who packed or sells them.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 155 (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 155 - Marking of Canned Soaked Goods and Molasses

Section 155. All canned articles of food which have been prepared from dry products and have been soaked before canning shall be plainly marked by an adhesive label having on its face the word ''soaked'' in letters of legible type not smaller than two line pica. All cans, jugs and other packages containing molasses shall be plainly marked by an adhesive label having on its face in the English language in letters of the size and description aforesaid the name and address of the person who made and prepared the same together with the name and quality of the ingredients thereof.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 157 (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 157 - Sale of Ice at Retail

Section 157. Whoever, being engaged in the business of selling ice at retail, and not engaged in the delivery of the same under a contract, refuses to sell from any place or vehicle engaged in the regular distribution of ice at retail a piece of ice at the fair value thereof to any person other than an ice dealer, shall, if such person tenders in payment therefor the amount of five cents or any multiple thereof not more than fifty cents in legal money of the United States, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 158 (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 158 - Scales for Vehicles Used for Retail Delivery of Ice; List of Current Prices

Section 158. A dealer in ice, who refuses or neglects to provide scales for each vehicle used by him for the retail delivery of ice, or who neglects to furnish to the sealer of weights and measures of each city or town in which he conducts business a list of the current prices of ice sold by him at retail, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 159 (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 159 - Posting of Prices of Ice on Vehicles; Weighing Ice

Section 159. Whoever having charge of the retail delivery of ice from a vehicle neglects to keep conspicuously posted upon each side of the vehicle the current retail prices of ice sold by him, or refuses or neglects to sell the same by weight, or refuses to weigh the same upon request of the purchaser, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 160 (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 160 - Impure Ice

Section 160. The department of public health, upon written complaint of not less than twenty-five consumers of ice cut from any pond or stream and sold or held for sale, alleging that said ice is impure and injurious to health, after notice to the parties interested in the time and place appointed for the hearing, and after hearing said parties, may make such orders relative to the sale of said ice as in its judgment the public health requires.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 161 (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 161 - Enforcement of Orders of Department of Public Health

Section 161. Orders made under the preceding section shall be served upon any person selling or offering for sale impure ice, and may be enforced in equity by the supreme judicial or superior court.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 162 (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 162 - Appeal From Order Made Under Sec. 160

Section 162. Whoever is aggrieved by any order made under section one hundred and sixty may appeal therefrom in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and forty-seven of chapter one hundred and eleven, and shall be subject to sections one hundred and forty-eight and one hundred and forty-nine of said chapter, and the court may award costs in its discretion.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 163 (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 163 - Vinegar Defined; Adulteration

Section 163. Vinegar is hereby defined as being the result of alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of natural fruit juices or vegetable products. Vinegar shall contain no added or artificial coloring matter, and shall contain not less than four grams of acetic acid in each one hundred cubic centimeters. If vinegar contains any added or artificial coloring matter, or less than the required amount of acidity, or if it is other than the product of alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of natural fruit juices or vegetable products, it shall be deemed to be adulterated.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 164 (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 164 - Examination of Vinegar; Methods; Publication

Section 164. The methods for the examination of vinegar shall be those adopted by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. When no such methods are applicable, such additional methods as are approved by the department of public health and published in its bulletin shall be employed.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 165 (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 165 - Containers Used for Sale of Vinegar; Marking; Labeling

Section 165. No manufacturer or producer of, or wholesale dealer in, vinegar shall, by himself or by his servant or agent, use a cask, barrel or other container for the sale, offering for sale, exchange or delivery of vinegar, or have such vinegar in possession in any cask, barrel or other container with intent to sell, offer for sale, exchange or deliver such vinegar therein, unless the container is plainly marked with the name and place of business of such manufacturer, producer or wholesale dealer, the kind of vinegar contained therein and the substances from which it is made and unless the following additional requirements as to the marking and labelling of the container are complied with:—If the vinegar is cider vinegar diluted to legal strength, the container shall be distinctly and conspicuously labelled, ''Diluted to Legal Strength'' or by other like words indicating such fact. Each compound, mixture or blend of vinegar shall be marked with the word ''compound'' or ''mixture'', together with a statement of its constituents and the percentage of each constituent. The principal label, including the word ''compound'' or ''mixture'', if used on vinegar in wooden packages, shall be in Roman letters not less than one inch high, properly spaced and in straight parallel lines with no more than two inches of space between each line. The marking of vinegar in other containers than wooden packages shall be governed by sections one hundred and eighty-six and one hundred and eighty-seven. Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to undiluted cider vinegar.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 166 (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 166 - Collection of Samples of Vinegar; Analysis

Section 166. The collection of samples of vinegar, as authorized by section three hundred and four, shall be made under the direction and supervision of the department of public health or by local boards of health. Samples may be purchased in the open market, and the stencillings, tags, brands or other markings upon the container shall be noted. Samples shall be divided into two substantially equal parts of at least sufficient volume to permit of a proper analysis as required by law, and at the time of the taking of the samples there shall be delivered to the owner or other person from whom the vinegar is taken one of the two above mentioned parts properly labelled with identifying marks and sealed with a seal, provided for that purpose, and a receipt therefor shall be given to the inspector or collector.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 167 (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 167 - Examination of Samples of Vinegar; Complaint for Misbranding or Adulteration; Hearing

Section 167. Samples of vinegar taken under authority of law shall be examined by the department of public health or by boards of health of towns. If it then appears that any sample is misbranded or adulterated, the department of public health, or the board of health of a town, as the case may be, need not cause formal complaint to be entered at once, but shall grant the opportunity for a hearing under section one hundred and eighty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 168 (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 168 - Imitation or Counterfeit Seal; Possession; Use; Penalty

Section 168. Whoever makes, causes to be made, uses or has in his possession, an imitation or counterfeit of a seal used by an inspector or other officer engaged in the inspection of vinegar, and whoever changes or tampers with a sample taken or sealed as provided in section one hundred and sixty-six, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 169 (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 169 - Vinegar; Applicability and Enforcement of Food and Milk Laws

Section 169. Each officer or person whose duty it is to enforce the laws relating to food and milk, shall enforce the laws relating to vinegar, and all laws relating to food shall apply to vinegar so far as they are applicable.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 170 (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 170 - Manufacture or Sale of Deleterious Vinegar; Penalty

Section 170. Each person who manufactures, offers or exposes for sale any vinegar found upon proper tests to contain any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric acid or other ingredient injurious to health, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 171 (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 171 - Sale, etc., of Adulterated Vinegar; Penalty

Section 171. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent so to do, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange adulterated vinegar, or whoever labels, brands or sells as cider vinegar or as apple vinegar, any vinegar not the exclusive product of the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of the pure juice of fresh apples, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 172 (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 172 - Barrel and Hogshead

Section 172. The barrel shall contain thirty-one and one half gallons and the hogshead two barrels, except that barrels containing malt beverages shall contain thirty-one gallons and that with respect to such barrels and fractional parts thereof a variation or tolerance of three per cent over and under the standard capacity shall be permitted.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 174 (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 174 - Cental

Section 174. A cental or hundredweight shall be one hundred pounds.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 174a (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 174a - Standard Weights of Containers for Grain Products

Section 174A. No person shall pack for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale in this commonwealth, except in containers of net avoirdupois weights of five, ten, twenty-five, fifty and one hundred pounds, and multiples of one hundred pounds, any of the following commodities:— wheat flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour, enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, corn meals, hominy and hominy grits; provided, that this section shall not apply to (a) the retailing of flours, meals, hominy and hominy grits direct to the consumer from bulk stock, or (b) the sale of flours and meals to commercial bakers or blenders or for export in containers of more than one hundred pounds, or (c) flours, meals, hominy and hominy grits packed in containers the net contents of which are less than three pounds, or (d) the exchange of wheat for flour by mills grinding for toll. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A of chapter 98.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 176 (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 176 - Weight; Definition; Tolerances or Variations

Section 176. ''Weight'' in a sale of commodities by weight shall mean the net weight of all commodities so sold; and contracts concerning such sales shall be so construed; provided, that in respect to commodities not intended for food or fuel reasonable tolerances or variations shall be permitted in accordance with established trade customs. As defined in section one, ready-to-eat food sold from bulk or in single servings packed on the premises, may be sold by weight, measure or count; provided, however, that count shall include servings. Violation hereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A of chapter 98.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 177 (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 177 - False or Insufficient Weight or Measure; Misrepresentation of Weight, Quantity, or Price; Penalties

Section 177. Except as otherwise provided by section two hundred and forty-eight, whoever himself or by his servant or agent gives or attempts to give false or insufficient weight or measure, or inferentially misrepresents the weight or quantity of a commodity sold or delivered by weight or measure by stating a price without stating the weight or quantity of such commodity, such price being in fact greater than the price advertised for such commodity or mutually understood by both parties to be the price for a given weight or measure, or demands or accepts payment in excess of the regularly quoted selling price of a commodity sold or delivered by weight or measure, or misrepresents the price of any commodity or service sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count or represents the price in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or in any way deceive a person, or takes or attempts to take more than the quantity he represents when, as the buyer, he furnishes the weights, measures or weighing or measuring device by means of which the amount of commodity is determined, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of one hundred dollars, for the second offense by a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars, and for a subsequent offense by a fine of five hundred dollars or shall be subject to a civil citation as provided in section 29A of chapter 98.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 178 (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 178 - Rules for Weighing; Certification; Public Weighers

Section 178. Each public weigher of goods or commodities shall weigh them according to section one hundred and seventy-six, and shall certify accordingly; and for each refusal or neglect he shall forfeit not more than ten dollars. Each weigher of goods appointed by a town, and each weigher for hire or reward, shall be a public weigher hereunder.
MA Gen L ch 94 § 180 (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 180 - Jurisdiction of Court; Complaints and Prosecutions Relating to Use or Giving of False or Insufficient Weight or Measure

Section 180. Complaints and prosecutions for violations of law relating to the use or giving of false or insufficient weight or measure may be commenced and prosecuted in a court having jurisdiction of the place to which the goods are shipped.