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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 3 — Filled Milk

§ 62. Manufacture, shipment, or delivery for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce prohibited

Statutory text

It is declared that filled milk, as defined in section 61 of this title, is an adulterated article of food, injurious to the public health, and its sale constitutes a fraud upon the public. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any Territory or possession, or within the District of Columbia, or to ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any filled milk.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 67–262 § 2 · 42 Stat. 813

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 62

    (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 2, 42 Stat. 1487.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 2, 42 Stat. 1487.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
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1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 2, 42 Stat. 1487.)

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