Title 21 — Food and DrugsRelease 119-73
§25 Oleomargarine, butterine, or imitation butter or cheese transported into a State subject to its police powers
Title 21 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - ADULTERATED OR MISBRANDED FOODS OR DRUGS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 25
Summary
Any product brought into a U.S. state, territory, or Washington, D.C. that looks like butter or cheese but isn’t made only from pure milk or cream — for example oleomargarine, imitation, renovated, or adulterated butter or cheese — must follow that place’s laws. It is treated the same as if it were made there and is not exempt just because it arrived in its original package.
Full Legal Text
Title 21, §25
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All articles known as oleomargarine, butterine, imitation, process, renovated, or adulterated butter, or imitation cheese, or any substance in the semblance of butter or cheese not the usual product of the dairy and not made exclusively of pure and unadulterated milk or cream, transported into any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall, upon the arrival within the limits of such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, enacted in the exercise of its police powers to the same extent and in the same manner as though such articles or substances had been produced in such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
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Citation
21 U.S.C. § 25
Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73