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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 124 - Inspection of Livestock and Poultry; Seizure and Destruction; Reports; Publication

Section 124. An inspector may inspect livestock and poultry, the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all meat and poultry or the products thereof, offered or exposed for sale or kept with intent to sell, and may enter any place where such livestock, poultry, carcasses or products are stored, kept, or exposed for sale and shall have access at all times, by day or night, to every part of every establishment required to have inspection under this chapter, whether the establishment is operated or not. If such carcasses or products are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decomposed, unwholesome, unfit for food from any cause or otherwise adulterated or misbranded, said inspector shall seize and may cause the same to be destroyed forthwith, or denatured and disposed of in accordance with such regulations as the department may prescribe. The inspector shall immediately notify the commissioner of any carcasses or products seized or condemned, stating the reasons for such seizure or condemnation and stating the name of the owner or person in whose possession it was found, and the disposition made of said carcass or product.
Reports shall be made by the inspector or other authorized person employed by the department, stating in detail the conditions observed and recommendations, if any, regarding such conditions. The consumers' council, upon request of its chairman, shall have access to such reports. Inspectors shall make inspections of all establishments licensed under the provisions of section one hundred and twenty. Reports of said inspections shall be made in quadruplicate and a case number assigned to each inspection shall be affixed thereto. A copy of each inspection report shall be given to the following:—
(a) to the person whose establishment has been inspected;
(b) to the commissioner; and,
(c) to the director of the division of food and drugs; and,
(d) one is to be retained by the inspector making said report.
Complete records of all inspections, reports, complaints and enforcement actions shall be maintained and a summarized monthly list of all enforcement actions, detailing the business name, address, offense charged, and disposition of each such case shall be published by the department and a copy thereof furnished to the consumers' council.
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 126 - Duties of Commissioner

Section 126. (a) The commissioner shall:—
(1) remove inspectors from any establishment that fails to destroy condemned products as required;
(2) refuse to provide inspection service under this chapter with respect to any official establishment for causes specified in section four hundred and one of the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, or section eighteen of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, as amended;
(3) refuse to provide inspection service under sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-eight, inclusive, with respect to any establishment for violation of provisions as set forth in said sections;
(4) order labeling and containers to be withheld from use if he determines that the labeling is false or misleading or the containers are of a misleading size or form;
(5) require that equines be slaughtered and prepared in establishments separate from establishments where other livestock are slaughtered or their products are prepared;
(6) require that persons subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, furnish the department, on such form as the commissioner may prescribe, annual or special reports, or both such annual or special reports, or answers in writing to specific questions asked by the commissioner, or such other information as the commissioner may require to enforce the provisions of said sections;
(7) cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in the administration of the provisions of this chapter in order to effectuate the purposes thereof, and to accept federal assistance for that purpose.
(b) The department shall:—
(1) by regulations prescribe the sizes and style of type to be used for labeling information required under this chapter, and definitions and standards of identity or composition or standards of bill of container, consistent with federal standards, when it deems such action appropriate for the protection of the public and after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) by regulations prescribe conditions of storage and handling of livestock products and poultry products by persons engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting such articles to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer;
(3) by regulations require that every person engaged in business in or for intrastate commerce as a broker, renderer, animal food manufacturer, or wholesaler or public warehouseman of livestock products or poultry products, or engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled or diseased livestock or poultry or parts of the carcasses of any such animals including poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter shall register with the department his name and the address of each place of business at which and all trade names under which he conducts such business.
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 128 - Failure to Testify or to Produce Evidence; Falsification of Reports; Penalties

Section 128. (a) Any person who neglects or refuses to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his or its power to do so, in obedience to the lawful requirement of the commissioner, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.
(b) Any person who makes, or causes to be made, any false entry or statement of act in any report required to be made under sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, or who makes, or causes to be made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any person subject to sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, or who neglects or fails to make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such person or that shall wilfully remove out of the jurisdiction of this commonwealth, or mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary evidence of any person subject to sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, or who wilfully refuses to submit to the commissioner for the purpose of inspection and taking copies; and documentary evidence of any person subject to sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, in his possession or within his control, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than three years or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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 129 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 118 to 128; Jurisdiction

Section 129. Any person who violates any provision of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-eight, inclusive, or any regulation or order issued under the authority of said sections shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine; except that any person who knowingly attempts to distribute in commerce an adulterated article or an unexempted article which has not been inspected under the provisions of this chapter, or who commits a violation which involves intent to defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than three years or a fine of not less than three thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine.
The superior court in equity is vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain violations of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-eight, inclusive.
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 130 - Certain Slaughter Operations Exempt From Provisions of Secs. 118 to 131

Section 130. The commissioner may exempt the following types of operations from any provisions of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive; (1) slaughtering and preparation by any person of livestock and poultry of his own raising exclusively for use by him and members of his household, and his nonpaying guests and employees, and (2) any other operations which the commissioner may determine would best be exempted to further the purposes of said sections, to the extent such exemptions conform to the Federal Meat Inspection Act, as amended, and the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, as amended, and any regulations thereunder.
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 131 - Inspection of Establishment Under Official Inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture

Section 131. Nothing in sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, shall be construed so as to require or prohibit inspection by the department of any establishment under official inspection by the United States department of agriculture or any livestock or poultry or any livestock or poultry product under such official establishment.
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 132 - Severability of Provisions of Secs. 118 to 131

Section 132. If any provision of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive, is declared void or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder or the provisions promulgated thereunder and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
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 139b - Sale of Dressed Poultry Slaughtered Without Commonwealth; Inspection

Section 139B. All dressed poultry, including chickens, fowl, ducks, geese, pheasants and turkeys, slaughtered without the commonwealth shall, unless it has been inspected for wholesomeness by the United States Department of Agriculture, be deemed unfit for food, and shall not be sold or offered for sale.
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 139c - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 139d to 139g

Section 139C. As used in this section and sections one hundred and thirty-nine D to one hundred and thirty-nine G, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:—
''Commissioner'', the commissioner of public health.
''Slaughterer'', any person regularly engaged in the business of (1) purchasing livestock for purposes of slaughter or (2) slaughtering livestock for the sale, by such person or others, of meat or meat products.
''Livestock'', cattle, calves, sheep, swine, horses, mules, goats and any other animal which can or may be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products, excluding poultry.
''Packer'', any person engaged in the business of slaughtering, or of manufacturing or preparing meat or meat products for sale, either by such person or others; or of manufacturing or preparing livestock products for sale by such person or others.
''Stockyard'', any place, establishment or facility conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, for the handling, keeping and holding of livestock for the purpose of sale or shipment.
''Humane method'', a method whereby the animal is rendered insensible to pain by mechanical, electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut; or a method of slaughtering, including handling and other preparation for slaughtering, required by or used in connection with the ritual requirements of the Jewish faith or of any other religious faith, whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument.
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 139d - Humane Method of Slaughter

Section 139D. No slaughterer, packer or stockyard operator shall shackle, hoist, or otherwise bring livestock into position for slaughter by any method which shall cause injury or pain, nor bleed or slaughter any livestock except by a humane method.
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 139e - Administration of Secs. 139c to 139g; Rules and Regulations

Section 139E. The commissioner shall administer the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-nine C to one hundred and thirty-nine G, inclusive. He shall promulgate and may from time to time revise rules and regulations which shall conform substantially to the rules and regulations promulgated by the secretary of the United States department of agriculture pursuant to the Federal Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 (Public Law 85–765; 72 Stat. 862); provided, however, that the use of a manually operated hammer, sledge or poleax shall not be deemed a humane method of slaughter within the meaning of sections one hundred and thirty-nine C to one hundred and thirty-nine G, inclusive.
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 139f - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 139d or 139e

Section 139F. Any person who violates any provision of section one hundred and thirty-nine D or one hundred and thirty-nine E, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, 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 139g - Ritual Slaughter

Section 139G. Nothing in sections one hundred and thirty-nine C to one hundred and thirty-nine E, inclusive, shall prohibit, abridge, or in any way hinder the religious freedom of any person or group, and, in order to protect freedom of religion, ritual slaughter and the handling or other preparation of livestock for ritual slaughter shall be exempt from the provisions of said sections. In this section the term ''ritual slaughter'' means slaughter in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Jewish faith or any other religious faith that prescribes a method of slaughter whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument.
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 140 - Weighers of Beef; Appointment; Oath

Section 140. In each town where beef cattle are sold for the purpose of marketing or barrelling, the mayor or selectmen shall appoint one or more persons, conveniently situated in such town and not dealers in cattle, as weighers of beef. Each such weigher shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties.
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 141 - Fees for Weighing Cattle

Section 141. Fees for weighing cattle shall be paid by the vendor and, unless otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, shall be twenty cents for each of the first five cattle, fifteen cents for each of the second five, ten cents each from eleventh to the twentieth, inclusive, and five cents for each cattle weighed above twenty; also twelve and one-half cents for each certificate, which shall contain the weight of each of the cattle weighed for one person unless the vender requests a division 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 142 - Adulteration of Sausage or Sausage Meat

Section 142. For the purposes of this and the following section, sausage or sausage meat shall be deemed to be adulterated:
First. If it contains any cereal or vegetable flour or any product thereof in excess of two per cent, except as authorized by section one hundred and forty-three A;
Second. If it contains any coloring matter, or any substance injurious or deleterious to health;
Third. If it contains water in excess of an amount sufficient to make the product palatable and to facilitate mixing and placing in casings;
Fourth. If it contains, except as casing, the organs of the thoracic and abdominal cavities or any part thereof, except hearts, tripe and liver;
Fifth. If it contains any diseased, contaminated, filthy or decomposed substance; or if it is manufactured, in whole or in part from, or contains a substance produced, stored, transported or kept in a way or manner that would render the article diseased, contaminated or unwholesome; or if it is the product of a diseased animal or the product of any animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter.
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 143 - Sale, etc., of Sausages

Section 143. No person shall manufacture, sell, or offer or expose for sale, sausages or sausage meat containing any material or substance which would render the same adulterated within the meaning of section one hundred and forty-two. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished 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 143a - Sale of Vegetable Sausages

Section 143A. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the sale or the offering or exposing for sale of vegetable sausages as such, if such sausages contain not less than twenty per cent of vegetables or vegetable products and are otherwise made in conformity with the provisions of this chapter; provided, that such sausages are sold, offered or exposed for sale under their own distinctive name.
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 147a - Regulations for Inspection of Game, Poultry, Etc.

Section 147A. The department of public health may make regulations for the inspection of game, poultry, and other meat except that of cattle, sheep or swine, intended for sale or exchange for use as food, and as to the conditions under which such game, poultry and other meat may be handled, stored, sold or exchanged. Whoever violates any provision of such a regulation shall be punished by a fine of not 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 148 - Penalties for Violation of Local Board of Health Rule or Failure to Give Notice Under Sec. 146

Section 148. Whoever violates any rule or regulation of a local board of health which is approved by the department of public health shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Failure to give a notice required by section one hundred and forty-six to be given by a board of health to the director of animal health shall be punished as provided in section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and twenty-nine.
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 149 - Interference With Officers and Agents of Local Boards of Health

Section 149. Whoever prevents, obstructs or interferes with a local board of health, its officers or agents, in the performance of its duties as provided in section one hundred and forty-six, or hinders, obstructs or interferes with any inspection or examination by it or them, or secretes or removes any carcass, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or provisions of any kind, for the purpose of preventing the inspection or examination of the same under sections one hundred and forty-six, one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two 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 150 - Sale of Unwholesome Food

Section 150. Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells or offers for sale for food or drink any diseased animal or product thereof or any tainted, diseased, corrupt, decayed or unwholesome carcass, meat, vegetable, produce, fruit or provisions of any kind, except when packed in such a container that upon reasonable inspection the condition of the contents thereof cannot be ascertained, without making the condition of the thing sold or offered for sale fully known to the buyer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred 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 150a - Exposing Unwholesome Food for Sale

Section 150A. Whoever knowingly exposes for sale or has in possession with intent to sell, for food or drink, anything described in the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or both. This section shall not apply to a wholesale dealer who has in his possession fruit or vegetables in the original package with intent to disclose fully to the purchaser the partly decayed condition 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 151 - Killing or Sale of Veal of Calf Less Than Two Weeks Old

Section 151. Whoever kills or causes to be killed a calf when less than two weeks old, with intent to sell for food the veal thereof, or knowingly sells for food, offers or exposes for sale therefor, or has in his possession with intent to sell for food, the veal of a calf so killed shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two 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 151a - Sale and Serving of Horse Meat Regulated

Section 151A. Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells or exposes or offers for sale in a retail store horse meat which does not have attached thereto in a conspicuous place a sign or label bearing in printed letters in a straight line of plain gothic type not less than one inch high the words ''horse meat'', and whoever serves horse meat or causes it to be served at any lunch counter or in any restaurant, hotel, boarding house, convalescent home, hospital or like place, to a guest, patron or patient thereof, without notifying said guest, patron or patient that horse meat is being served to him 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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.