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2023 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 58 - Serving Oleomargarine at Hotels, Restaurants, etc.; Notice; Penalty

Section 58. Whoever furnishes oleomargarine or causes it to be furnished, instead of butter, in any hotel, restaurant or boarding house or at any lunch counter, to a guest or patron thereof, without notifying said guest or patron by means of signs or printed notices on menus, such printing to be of not less than twenty-four point type, in the English language, that the substance so furnished is not butter shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
2023 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 59 - Process or Renovated Butter; Sale; Labeling

Section 59. Whoever himself or by his agent sells, exposes for sale or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, an article or compound commonly known as process butter, and produced by taking original packing stock or other butter, or both, melting the same, so that the butter fat can be drawn off, mixing the fat with skimmed milk, or milk, cream or other milk product, and rechurning the mixture, or by any similar process, shall have ''renovated butter'' conspicuously stamped, labelled or marked so that the words cannot easily be defaced, in a straight line in printed letters not less than one half inch in length, of plain, uncondensed gothic type, upon the top, side and bottom of each tub, firkin, box or package containing said article or compound. The seller at retail of said article or compound which is not in the original package shall himself or by his agent attach to each package so sold and deliver therewith to the purchaser a label or wrapper bearing conspicuously upon the outside thereof the words ''renovated butter'' in printed letters not less than one half inch in length, in a straight line of plain, uncondensed gothic type. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, for the second offence by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than three months.
2023 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 60 - Complaints for Violations of Sections Relative to Oleomargarine, Butter and Cheese

Section 60. Each inspector of milk shall institute complaints for the violation of any provision of sections forty-nine to fifty-eight, inclusive, sixty-two or sixty-five G to sixty-five S, inclusive, except subsections (c) to (e), inclusive, of section sixty-five P, on the information of any person who lays before him satisfactory evidence to sustain such complaint, if he has reasonable cause to believe that said provision has been violated. He may enter each place where butter, cheese or imitations thereof, or frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix as defined in section sixty-five G, are stored or kept for sale, and shall take samples of suspected butter, cheese or imitations thereof, or frozen desserts or frozen dessert mix, and cause them to be analyzed or otherwise satisfactorily tested, and shall record and preserve as evidence the result of such analysis or test. Before commencing the analysis of any sample in any proceeding for violation of any provision of sections forty-nine to fifty-one, inclusive, and sixty-five G to sixty-five S, inclusive, the analyst shall reserve and seal a portion of the sample, and, upon complaint made against the person from whom such sample was taken, such reserved portion of the sample alleged to be adulterated shall, upon application, be delivered to such person or to his attorney. The expense of such analysis or test, not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, may be included in the expense of such prosecution.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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 69 - Regulation of Cold Storage

Section 69. No article of food intended for human consumption shall be placed or retained in cold storage if deemed by the department of public health to be diseased, tainted or otherwise unwholesome, and no person shall return to cold storage any article of food that has once been released from such storage for the purpose of placing it on the market for sale, but this section shall not apply to the transfer of goods from one cold storage or refrigerating warehouse to another, provided that such transfer is not made for the purpose of evading any provision of sections sixty-six to seventy-two, inclusive, and ninety-two. No person shall alter, deface or remove any marking on cold storage food which shows the date of its receipt in cold storage until after the food is finally withdrawn for the purpose of immediate sale for consumption, nor shall any person transfer the ownership of food in cold storage without previously making known to the purchaser the date on which it was originally placed in cold storage.
2023 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 70 - Time Limit for Holding Food in Cold Storage; Extension

Section 70. No person shall hold any article of food in cold storage which has been in cold storage longer than twelve calendar months, except with the consent of the department of public health. The said department, upon application, may extend the period of storage beyond twelve months for a particular consignment of goods, if the goods in question are found upon examination to be in proper condition for further storage at the end of such time. The length of time for which further storage is allowed shall be specified by the department. A report on each case in which such extension of storage is permitted, including information relating to the reason for the action of said department, the kind and amount of goods for which the storage period was extended, and the period of extension, shall be included in the annual report of the commissioner of public health.
2023 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 71 - Date of Receipt of Food in Cold Storage; Marking on Containers

Section 71. The date of receipt into cold storage shall be plainly marked either upon the containers in which any articles of food deposited in such storage are packed, or, if not packed in containers, on or in connection with all such articles, except fish. When deposited in cold storage, all articles of food which have been previously stored in any other state or country shall be plainly marked, as above provided, with the date of their original deposit in cold storage.
2023 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 72 - Sale of Goods Formerly Held in Cold Storage; Displaying Sign

Section 72. Except as provided in sections seventy-eight and ninety-one, no person shall sell or offer or expose for sale articles of food which have been held in cold storage without notifying each person purchasing or intending to purchase the same that they have been so held by displaying in a conspicuous place a sign marked ''Cold Storage Goods Sold Here''. No person shall represent or advertise as fresh goods articles of food which have been held in cold storage.
2023 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 73 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 66 to 72 and 92

Section 73. Whoever violates any provision of sections sixty-six to seventy-two, inclusive, and ninety-two, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both.
2023 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 73a - Storing and Transporting Frozen Food

Section 73A. No person engaged in the business of storing frozen food or transporting such food shall store or transport such food within the commonwealth unless it is stored or transported under refrigeration which shall insure good keeping qualities and under temperatures and holding conditions approved by the director of the division of food and drugs of the department of public health. Said director may, after public hearing, make regulations for the storing and transportation of frozen food, including temperature control, sanitation and other matters, in accordance with recognized standards necessary for the protection of the public health and the preservation of such food in wholesome condition. The term ''frozen food'', as used in this section, shall include food of any kind which has been preserved by a process of freezing. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to delivery of such food by a retailer to the purchaser.
Whoever violates any provision of this section or of any regulation made hereunder shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
2023 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 77a - Classification of Fish; Definition

Section 77A. All fresh food fish before being offered for sale, placed in cold storage, salted or smoked shall be graded as follows:—
''Prime'', fish in extra fine condition.
''Superior'', fish in suitable condition to stand shipment outside the commonwealth for human consumption as fresh fish.
''Standard'', fish in suitable condition for immediate human consumption as fresh fish.
All other fish shall be classified as refuse, shall be deemed unsuitable for human consumption, and may be used only for fish meal, fertilizer or other non-food purposes.
No person shall represent, sell, offer for sale or advertise fresh, frozen, salted or smoked fish of any grade under any misleading or other than the truthful and correct name and grade or corresponding term for such fish.
The word ''fish'' as used in this section shall be taken to mean only swimming fish or finny fish of the class known as Pisces.
2023 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 77b - Marking Food Fish Containers Deposited in Cold Storage With Date of Receipt

Section 77B. Food fish, unless deposited in bulk, when deposited in cold storage except in private freezing plants, shall be plainly marked with the date of receipt on the containers in which they are packed; and if deposited in bulk, shall at the time of removal from cold storage be plainly marked on such containers with the month and year of receipt.
2023 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 77d - Importation of Fresh Swordfish

Section 77D. No person shall import, or cause to be imported into this commonwealth for purposes of sale, any fresh swordfish unless properly packed in ice so as to prevent the same from becoming infected, contaminated or unwholesome.
2023 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 77e - Marking of Imported Fish Formerly in Cold Storage

Section 77E. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in cold storage for a period exceeding six months fish received from any other state or country which have been previously in cold storage either within or without this commonwealth, unless at the time of deposit such fish are plainly marked with the date of their original deposit in cold storage, whether within or without.
2023 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 77f - Sale of Food Fish by Weight

Section 77F. All food fish, except soft-shelled clams and oysters sold at wholesale, shall be sold by weight. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
2023 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 77g - Use of Dead Lobsters for Food Purposes

Section 77G. Whoever cooks, buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, gives away, or knowingly delivers, transports, ships, or receives for food purposes any lobster, or similar species of crustacea, or any part thereof, which is uncooked and dead, or which was cooked after it was dead, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 60 days, or both; provided, however, that it shall not be a violation of this section to cook, buy, sell, offer or expose for sale, give away or knowingly deliver, transport, ship or receive any lobster or part thereof processed for food by a person who has been licensed or certified under this section, as hereinafter provided.
The department of public health may license any person to process within the commonwealth lobsters in the shell of legal length for food by a method approved by it. The department shall from time to time adopt rules and regulations governing the processing of such lobsters and the sanitary conditions required for the establishment of a person licensed under this section.
Each container of lobsters processed by a method as herein provided shall bear a plainly marked label, which shall include the license number or name of the packer, and the date of the processing of said lobsters.
2023 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 77h - Purchase, Sale, Transportation, Etc. of Lobster or Crab Meat Taken From Shell

Section 77H. No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, give away, deliver, transport, ship, carry or have in his possession any lobster meat or crab meat after the same has been taken from the shell, except as hereinafter provided. Any lobster meat unlawfully sold, given away, shipped, bought, transported or possessed shall be liable to seizure and may be confiscated. The foregoing shall not apply to such lobster meat or crab meat in the possession of a common carrier for transportation and which is marked as provided in section forty-seven of chapter one hundred and thirty or of which it has no notice; nor to canned lobster meat or crab meat when certified, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of public health, by the board of health or a body having similar powers of the municipality or other governmental unit, where canned, to have been in suitable condition for human consumption when canned, and to have been canned under healthful conditions, and so as to insure the continuance, until use, of such condition; nor to such meat sold for food by a licensed victualler if such meat has been obtained from a dealer holding a permit as hereinafter provided; nor to such meat removed from the shell on the premises where it is to be eaten; nor to such meat removed from the shell by a wholesale or retail dealer in lobster, or edible crabs, at his regular place of business therefor if said dealer has a written permit from the director of marine fisheries in the department of natural resources for the sale and delivery of such lobster or crab meat and if such meat is so removed or sold under such conditions and regulations as the commissioner of public health shall prescribe, and if such premises are at all reasonable times open to the inspection of the commissioner, his agents or inspectors. No permit shall be required for the resale of such meat so long as it remains in the original unbroken package; provided that such package is clearly labeled with the words ''lobster meat removed under permit No. ___'', followed by the number of the permit under which said lobster meat was removed. Such a permit may be granted upon written application to the said director and the payment of a fee of ten dollars, shall expire on December thirty-first next succeeding the date of issue, and shall be revoked by the said director upon the request of the commissioner of public health for the violation by the holder thereof of any rule or regulation.
2023 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 77i - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 77a to 77h

Section 77I. As used in sections seventy-seven A to seventy-seven H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless a contrary intention appears:—
''Canned lobster meat or crab meat'', lobster meat or crab meat preserved by heat processing, freezing, or refrigeration, and packed in a container impervious to contamination and so sealed that once opened it cannot be re-sealed and re-used for its original purpose.
''Clam'', a marine mollusk of the species Mya arenaria commonly called the soft-shelled clam.
''Fish'', any animal life inhabiting the ocean or its connecting waters including any crustacean or marine fish, whether free swimming or free moving, and any shellfish or sea worms, whether or not imbedded in the soil. All provisions of said sections relative to fish shall, so far as apt, apply also to lobster meat and crab meat after the same has been taken from the shell.
''Lobster'', the common American lobster, of the species Homarus americanus.
''Quahaug'', a marine mollusk of the species Venus Mercenaria commonly called the hard-shell clam.
''Scallop'', a marine mollusk of the species Pecten irradians, commonly known as the bay scallop or shallow water scallop.
''Shellfish'', clams, conchs, mussels, oysters, periwinkles, quahaugs, razor clams or razor fish, scallops, sea clams, sea quahaugs, sea scallops and winkles.
2023 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 85 - Clam Bait; Contents of Barrel

Section 85. If clam bait is sold by the barrel, ''barrel'' shall mean a fish barrel of not less than twenty-eight nor more than twenty-nine gallons, and containing twenty-six gallons of clams and not more than three gallons of pickle. If the purchaser and seller disagree as to the quantity in a barrel, either party may have it measured by the deputy director of standards or a sealer of weights and measures. If such barrel does not contain the said number of gallons of clams, the seller shall receive payment for the number of gallons of clams it does contain, but shall pay the expense of measuring and coopering; otherwise the purchaser shall pay such expense.
2023 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 86 - Weighing, Sorting and Culling Fish; Certificate of Weight; Rules and Regulations

Section 86. All fish when landed from a vessel or boat shall be weighed by a public weigher of fish or his deputy, when so requested or demanded by the buyer or seller of such fish or by the master, agent or a majority of the crew of such vessel or boat; and said weigher shall issue a certificate of weight to the seller and a duplicate to the buyer. The director of consumer affairs and business regulation may adopt, amend or repeal, and shall enforce, all such reasonable rules and regulations, and orders thereunder, as may be necessary or suitable in relation to the weighing, sorting and culling of fish when landed from a vessel or boat. Whoever violates said rules or regulations or orders thereunder shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
2023 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 87 - Record of Weight, etc., of Fish

Section 87. Each deputy shall report to such weigher the weight of fish weighed by him, and the weigher shall keep a complete record of such weight with the date of weighing, the name of the vessel from which the fish were taken and the person for whom they were weighed.
2023 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 88 - Fees for Weighing of Fish

Section 88. The fees for weighing fish shall be twenty cents per one thousand pounds, but in no case less than one dollar, and shall be paid by the person applying to have the fish weighed. Each deputy shall pay to the weigher two cents per one thousand pounds for all fish weighed by him.
2023 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 88b - Sale of Shucked Scallops or Quahaugs in Shell by Weight

Section 88B. No shucked scallops or quahaugs in the shell shall be sold except by weight. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars.
2023 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 88c - Rules and Regulations

Section 88C. The commissioner of public health shall adopt rules and regulations relative to the sanitary conditions required for establishments, and persons operating such establishments, for which certificates or permits are required by chapter one hundred and thirty or by this chapter for the commercial processing or distribution of food fish, including lobsters, crabs, the meat from either, finny fish of the class known as Pisces, and shellfish, and for the sanitary requirements of boats and other vehicles or structures used in the catching, storage or transportation of such food fish; provided that all such rules and regulations shall meet the requirements of the United States as to interstate commerce in fish or shellfish and of other states in relation to the importation, inspection and consumption thereof within their respective limits.
2023 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 88d - Inspection of Fish Offered for Sale

Section 88D. The commissioner, his agents or inspectors may inspect all fish offered or exposed for sale or kept with intent to sell, and for such purpose may enter any place where fish is stored, kept, offered or exposed for sale, may examine the conditions of such place and the equipment thereof and may require that such place and equipment be kept in a sanitary condition. If on inspection it is found that such fish is tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome or unfit for food from any cause, the inspector shall seize and cause the same to be destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for food. All money received for fish disposed of as aforesaid, after deducting the expense of said seizure and disposal, shall be paid to the owner of such fish. Whoever, by himself or by his agent or employee, sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or keeps with intent to sell or offer or expose for sale, for food purpose fish which is tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome or unfit for food from any cause, or whoever violates any provisions of sections seventy-seven A to eighty-eight D, inclusive, or any rule or regulation made thereunder, or hinders, obstructs, or interferes with any inspection authorized hereunder, or secretes or removes fish for the purpose of preventing such inspection shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for six months, or both.