Title 24, Title 24: FOOD AND DRUGS

24:9-34. Penalties for violations Any person who shall violate any provision of this act, or any rule or regulation of the State department made pursuant thereto, or who shall refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of the department, shall be liable to the following …

24:9-35. Enforcement of provisions The local board of health shall enforce the provisions of this act within its jurisdiction. The State Department of Health and the local board, and any officer or employee thereof shall, in the performance of any duty imposed by this act, at all…

24:9-36. Plaintiff entitled to penalties Any penalty recovered in an action brought under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the plaintiff therein. When the plaintiff is the State Department of Health, the penalty shall be paid by the department into the treasury of the …

24:9-37. Repeal Chapter nine of Title 24 of the Revised Statutes is repealed. L.1951, c. 342, p. 1236, s. 17.

24:10-57.1. Definitions The following words as used in this act and in rules, regulations, definitions, standards of identity or labeling requirements promulgated thereunder shall have the following meanings: a. "Fluid milk products" means: (1) Milk, cream, certified milk, skim m…

24:10-57.10. Powers of local board of health Notwithstanding any other provision of the laws of the State of New Jersey, the local board shall have the following enumerated powers with respect to the production, handling, processing, and distribution of milk, milk products and fl…

24:10-57.11. Inconsistent ordinances, rules or regulations Nothing in this act shall be so construed to repeal or abrogate any ordinance, rule or regulation of a local board which is not inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of section 10 hereof. L.1964, c. 62, s. 11.

24:10-57.12. Notification of violations; prohibition of distribution and sale The department, whenever it shall ascertain that milk, milk products or fluid milk products are produced for distribution or sale in violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall notify the loca…

24:10-57.13. Inspections; authorized inspectors The inspections provided for in this act may be made by the department or by any local board of health or any agency which the department certifies as qualified to conduct such inspections. L.1964, c. 62, s. 13. Amended by L.1972, c…

24:10-57.14. Place of inspection All milk or fluid milk products and all milk and cream used in said fluid milk products produced within this State, and all milk or fluid milk products and all milk and cream used in said fluid milk products produced outside of this State and inte…

24:10-57.15. Inability of local board to make inspections If a local board within this State is unable for any reason to conduct inspections as provided herein, the local board shall certify by resolution its inability so to do and shall in the resolution detail the reasons for s…

24:10-57.16. Bacteriological and other tests; methods, techniques, personnel, etc. Laboratories which perform bacteriological or other tests associated with milk, milk products or fluid milk products for a health officer or local board of health, shall utilize methods, techniques…

24:10-57.17. Pasteurization required No person shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute to the ultimate consumer any milk or cream that is not pasteurized. L. 1964, c. 62, s.17; amended 1987, c. 302, s. 2.

24:10-57.18. Milk and fluid milk products; pasteurization No milk products nor fluid milk products shall be manufactured, shipped, transported, or imported for use or sale within this State unless the milk and fluid milk products used in the manufacture of such food products are …

24:10-57.19. Enforcement; failure of local board to act; procedure by state department The department shall satisfy itself that the provisions of this act and regulations are enforced throughout this State and shall call to the attention of the local board of health any failure o…

24:10-57.2. Permit to operate milk plant or as bulk milk hauler; necessity; transferability; expiration No person shall operate a milk plant, as defined herein, from which milk or fluid milk products are shipped, transported or imported for the purpose of distribution, sale or re…

24:10-57.20. Rules and regulations The department is hereby empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations as it may consider necessary in order to insure the public health, safety and welfare and for the enforcement and carrying into effect of any provision of this act inclu…

24:10-57.21. Sanitary conditions; health and habits of personnel The general sanitary conditions of any dairy farm, milk plant or milk depot and its immediate surroundings, the health of the dairy animals, the health and habits of the personnel employed, and the methods, faciliti…

24:10-57.22. Use of apparatus, containers, equipment, etc., for other purposes prohibited Apparatus, containers, equipment and utensils used in the production, handling, collecting, storage, processing or transporting of milk, milk products, fluid milk products or other wholesome…

24:10-57.23. Container regulations 23. Containers of milk, certified milk, Vitamin D milk, homogenized milk, low fat milk, protein fortified low fat milk, skim milk, protein fortified skim milk, nonfat milk, protein fortified nonfat milk, flavored milks and dairy drinks, buttermi…

24:10-57.24. Cans, packages and other containers enclosing milk, milk products or fluid milk products; labelling All cans, packages, and other containers enclosing milk, milk products or fluid milk products defined by or under authority of this act, shall be plainly labeled or ma…

24:10-57.24a. Use of or reference to fluid milk product or dairy farm by imitation product; prohibition Use of, or reference to the words "milk" or any fluid milk product or use of any statement, design, symbol, picture, device or combination thereof which relates to any fluid mi…

24:10-57.24b. Additional rules and regulations for milk products and their imitations The State Department of Health in addition to its other regulatory powers shall promulgate such rules and regulations governing the production, handling, processing, distribution and sale of mil…

24:10-57.26. Failure of milk or milk products to meet minimum requirements Any milk, milk product or fluid milk product which fails to meet the minimum requirements set forth in this act and the regulations promulgated thereunder shall not be sold, offered or exposed for sale, di…

24:10-57.27. Milk and milk products of violators barred from state The department may bar from this State milk, milk products, or fluid milk products owned or possessed by any person violating any of the provisions of this act, as well as the rules and regulations established by …

24:10-57.28. Contamination of milk No person having the possession or care of any milk which is intended for distribution or sale for human consumption shall permit it to be exposed to or contaminated by the emanations, discharges or exhalations from a person known to be infected…

24:10-57.29. Severability If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid, shall not be …

24:10-57.3. Restrictions in permits The department shall, in issuing such permits, restrict each permit either to: (a) Milk and fluid milk products for fluid or manufacturing purposes, or (b) Milk and fluid milk products for manufacturing purposes only. L.1964, c. 62, s. 3.

24:10-57.30. Repeals Sections 24:10-1 to 24:10-57 inclusive and 24:10-89 to 24:10-103 inclusive of the Revised Statutes, and chapter 195 of the laws of 1938 are repealed. L.1964, c. 62, s. 30.

24:10-57.4. Temporary or emergency permits The department may issue temporary or emergency permits for limited periods or for limited quantities of milk or a particular fluid milk product and may restrict such permits to a particular area or to a particular milk plant, in order t…

24:10-57.5. Annual fee; amounts The department shall collect from each applicant for a permit under the provisions of this act an annual fee in the following amounts: (a) From each milk plant or bulk milk hauler receiving milk or fluid milk products from another milk plant or bul…

24:10-57.6. Preliminary findings The department before issuing any permit under the provisions of this act shall be satisfied as a result of inspection of the following facts: (a) That the milk and fluid milk products are of the standard and quality required by, and are produced,…

24:10-57.7. Forms; establishment by state department The department shall establish such form or forms as in its judgment may be necessary to ascertain the facts that said milk or fluid milk product is of the standard and quality required by and was produced, handled, processed, …

24:10-57.8. Revocation of permit; grounds; renewal; suspension pending hearing Upon evidence duly ascertained by the department or furnished to the department by any local board of health, that a person or persons authorized under a permit issued hereunder to operate a milk plant…

24:10-57.9. Maintenance of records; inspection Complete records of receipts and disposition of all milk and fluid milk products handled in milk plants and by bulk milk haulers holding permits issued by the department shall be maintained in each milk plant and in each bulk milk ha…

24:10-73.1. Rules and regulations of department of health; establishment of standards of identity and definitions The State Department of Health, hereinafter referred to as the "department" shall from time to time after inquiry and public hearing, adopt and promulgate rules and r…

24:10-73.10 License to sell, distribute frozen desserts. 10. Every person owning or operating a frozen dessert plant for the assembly, manufacturing, processing, freezing or converting in form of frozen desserts for wholesale sale or distribution or a mobile unit within this Stat…

24:10-73.11. Form of application; affidavit The application for a license shall be made on forms to be supplied by the department. The application shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person or some member or officer of the association, partnership or corporation appl…

24:10-73.12. Issuance of license; expiration Upon approval of the application for a license and of the sanitary condition of the frozen dessert plant and upon payment of the required license fee, the department shall issue to each applicant a license or certificate of registratio…

24:10-73.13. Revocation or suspension of license; renewal Upon evidence duly ascertained by the department or furnished to the department by any local board of health, that the licensee licensed under the provisions of this act is violating any of the rules, regulations or statut…

24:10-73.14. Illegal sale and distribution of frozen dessert (a) It shall be illegal for any person to sell or distribute any frozen dessert in this State unless such products have been manufactured in a frozen dessert plant, the owner or operator of which is licensed under the p…

24:10-73.15. Use of license moneys for enforcement The department is charged with the enforcement of this act and shall, for the purpose of providing funds to defray the cost of enforcement of this act, use the money received for licenses as stated in section 10, of this act, for…

24:10-73.16. Inspection; fee The department shall be and hereby is, authorized to inspect for licensing purposes applicant plants located outside of the State of New Jersey and licensed frozen dessert plants located outside of the State of New Jersey in the same manner as it insp…

24:10-73.17. Partial invalidity If any section or sections of this act or any provision thereof shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative in whole or in part, such section or provision shall, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional, invalid or inopera…

24:10-73.18. Repeals This act is a revision law and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby superseded and repealed and without limiting the general effect of this act in superseding and repealing acts inconsistent herewith the following parts of acts are spec…

24:10-73.1a. Compliance with rules and regulations; extensions of time The State Department of Health shall grant reasonable extensions of time for compliance with rules or regulations enacted pursuant to this amendatory act where undue hardship would result to any person because…