Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1911 — Barnard banes Another Bad Egg Warning and Quotes Law. [ARTICLE]

Barnard banes Another Bad Egg Warning and Quotes Law.

The Indiana Pare Food Law forbids the sale or offering for sale of eggs which are Jn any way decomposed, putrid or rcfcen by paragraph 4 of Section 2' of the law, which reads: An article shall be deemed as adulterated in the case of food * * ft A If it consists in any proportion of a filthy, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal * * * * substance. Section 4 makes It the duty of all peace and health officers to seize eggs found to be unwholesome and which are intended for sale or offered for • sale. Section 10 of the acts provides that

* * * *. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction for the first offense, be punished by a fine of not les than SIO.OO nor'more than $30.00; for the second offense, by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00; and for the third and subsequent offenses, by a fine of SIOO.OO and imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more than ninety days. Inspectors of the Food and Drug Department of the State Board of Health and all County, City and Town Health Officers are instructed to enforce these provisions of the law.

Egg producers, dealers And shippers will take notice that the sale of bad eggs or of stale or storage eggs as fresh eggs is in violation of the law and that prosecutions will be Instituted wherever evidence of violations can be secured. 4^ H. E. BARNARD, State Food and Drug Comr,