Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102

§25 Oleomargarine, Butterine, or Imitation Butter or Cheese Transported Into a State Subject to Its Police Powers

Title 21 › CHAPTER 1 — ADULTERATED OR MISBRANDED FOODS OR DRUGS › SUBCHAPTER II — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 25

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

When products called oleomargarine, butterine, imitation or adulterated butter, imitation cheese, or anything that looks like butter or cheese but is not made only from pure milk or cream are brought into a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and stay there for use, sale, consumption, or storage, they must follow that place’s laws for public health and safety just as if they were made there. They cannot avoid those laws just because they arrive in their original packages.

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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102