ALABAMA. The State of Alabama has no officer charged with the enforcement of its food laws, with the exception that limited powers are accorded the commissioner of agriculture and the State and county boards of health. No attempt has been made to enforce the laws of the State. GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 5325. Penalty for adulteration of foods. Any merchant, grocer, or other person, who mixes any foreign matter or substance with sugar, syrup, or molasses, lard or butter, or other article of food, so as to deteriorate or change the quality thereof, or sells or offers or exposes for sale, such adulterated sugar, syrup, or molasses, lard or butter, or other article of food, or who suffers his servant, agent, apprentice, or other person for him, so to adulterate, or to sell, offer or expose for sale, such adulterated sugar, syrup, or molasses, lard or butter, or other article of food, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 433. * SEC. 4. Sanitation. It shall be the duty of the county boards of health * * (d) to exercise through their committees of public health and health officers special supervision over the sanitary conditions of markets, public dairies, and slaughter pens or houses. * * * SEC. 18. Inspection of stores, markets, restaurants, etc. The board of health of any county may, subject to the approval of the State board of health, prescribe the rules for the inspection of grocery houses, markets, restaurants, lunch stands, eating places, dining rooms, pantries, kitchens, and yards adjacent thereto, in said county, but no inspection of any such place shall be made until after the written consent of the proprietor, owner, or keeper of the place to be inspected has been filed with said board of health of said county, after which an inspection of said place may without previous notice be made at any hour of the day or night up to 10 o'clock p. m. Once every month said board of health of said county may publicly give notice of all places inspected during the previous month which, judged by rules as to sanitation prescribed by said board of health of said county and approved by the State board of health, have been found in good sanitary condition. Approved October 9, 1903. General Acts 1903, No. 542, pp. 501, 510. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. 5327. Any manufacturer, brewer, distiller, grocer, tavern keeper, retailer of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or wholesale dealer of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any other person, who makes, distills, sells, or offers to sell, or exposes for sale, or permits his servant, apprentice, clerk, or agent, or other person for him, to sell, offer or expose for sale, any such liquors which have been adulterated by the mixture or addition of any poisonous, unwholesome substances, or which are com posed or compounded, in whole or in part, of any drug or oil, must, on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred and fifty, and not more than one thousand dollars. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 434. BREAD. 5322. Penalty for handling unwholesome bread. Any baker, or other person, who sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or suffers his servant, apprentice, agent, or other person for him, to sell, offer, or expose for sale, any bread made from sour or unwholesome flour, must, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty, nor more than two hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months. 5323. Branding. Any person, who sells or exposes for sale any bread, biscuit, or cracker, without having the name, or the initials of the Christian and surname of the baker legibly marked on each biscuit, cracker, or loaf of bread, must, on conviction, be fined not more than twenty dollars. 5324. Penalty for counterfeiting brands. Any person, who counterfeits the name or initials of another on any bread, biscuit, or cracker, or who marks any bread, biscuit, or cracker with any other initials or name than his own, must, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty, nor more than fifty dollars. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 433. BUTTER. 5326. Penalty for handling adulterated butter. Any person, who renders and manufactures, sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell or serve to persons, guests, boarders, or inmates, in any hotel, eating house, restaurant, dining car, boarding house, public or private hospital, school, or penal institution, any article, product, or compound, made wholly or partly out of any fat, oil, oleaginous substance, or compound thereof, not produced directly and at the time of manufacture from unadulterated milk, or cream from the same, which shall be in imitation of yellow butter produced from pure unadulterated milk, or cream from the same, must, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars; but this section shall not be so construed as to prohibit the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real character, free from coloration or ingredients that cause it to look like butter, by having it stamped with its true name. Approved Feb. 18, 1895. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 433. 376 (Par. 20). Duties of the commissioner of agriculture. The commissioner of agriculture shall from time to time enquire into and examine into the sale or delivery within this State of any article, product, or compound, made wholly or partly out of any fat, oil, oleaginous substance, or compound thereof, not produced directly at the time of manufacture from unadulterated milk, or cream from the same, which shall be in imitation of yellow butter produced from pure unadulterated milk, or cream from the same; and that for the purpose of making said investigation he shall be authorized to summon and examine witnesses and administer oaths to them, and whenever he has cause to believe from such investigation that an offense has been committed against the laws of this State, it shall be his duty to report the same, together with the evidence in the case, to the solicitor of the proper circuit or county to be laid before the grand jury. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, duly certified to and verified by the affidavit of the commissioner of agricul 8492-No. 69, pt 1-05-4 ture, and approved by the governor, shall be paid from the funds of the department of agriculture derived from the sale of tags. Approved February 18, 1897. Acts of Alabama, 1896-97, p. 1307; Civil Code, 1896, vol. 1. CONFECTIONERY. 5328. Any person, firm, or corporation that shall manufacture or knowingly sell or give away or keep for sale any candies, confectioneries of any kind adulterated by the admixture of terra alba, barytes, talc, or other earthy or mineral substance, or any poisonous colors, flavors, or extracts or other ingredients injurious to health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, may be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for a period not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court. This section shall be given in charge to the grand jury. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 434. MEAT. 5321. Penalty for sale of unwholesome fish or flesh. Any butcher, or other person, who sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or suffers his apprentice, servant, agent, or other person for him, to sell, offer, or expose for sale, any tainted, putrid, or unwholesome fish or flesh, or the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, for the purpose of being sold or offered for sale, must, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. Criminal Code of Alabama, 1896, p. 432. SEC. 1. Butchers' records. Every butcher shall keep in a book to be kept by him for that purpose a record of each and every cow or animal of the cow kind killed, showing the color, earmarks, and brand of each cow or animal of the cow kind killed or butchered, and date when killed or butchered, and if purchased, from whom purchased, the residence of the person from whom the same was purchased, and when, and also the approximate gross weight at the time purchased and at the time killed or butchered. SEC. 2. Inspection of records. All persons shall have a right to inspect at any time the book ordered to be kept by section one of this act and that the description required by section one shall be entered in said book within twenty-four hours after butchering any cow or animal of the cow kind. SEC. 3. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars and may be sentenced to hard labor for the county for a period of not exceeding twelve months. Approved October 10, 1903. General Acts 1903, No. 493, pp. 419–420. WATER. SEC. 3. The State board of health shall have general control over the enforcement of the laws relating to the public health; * * shall have the right to inspect * all public schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, poorhouses, and other public institutions of like character, also the sources of supply and avenues of conveyance of drinking water furnished to incorporated cities and towns; * Approved October 9, 1903. General Acts 1903, No. 542, p. 500. ALASKA. Alaska has no officer authorized to enforce its food law. GENERAL FOOD LAW. 156. Sale of unwholesome provisions; penalty. If any person shall knowingly sell any kind of diseased, corrupted, or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without making the same fully known to the buyer, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. 157. Injurious adulteration. If any person shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any substance intended for meat or drink, with any substance injurious to health, or shall sell or offer for sale any substance so intended, knowing the same to be so adulterated, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner provided in the section last preceding. Carter's Annotated Code, 1900, pt. 1, p. 33. 45 |