§347a — Title 21 Food and Drugs | U.S. Code

Summary

Selling or serving colored oleomargarine or margarine that is not clearly labeled, contaminated, or labeled wrong under the federal food law reduces sales of butter and properly labeled oleomargarine and creates a burden on trade between states, Congress finds. This harm applies whether the product comes from another state or from the same state.

Title 21, §347a

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The Congress hereby finds and declares that the sale, or the serving in public eating places, of colored oleomargarine or colored margarine without clear identification as such or which is otherwise adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.] depresses the market in interstate commerce for butter and for oleomargarine or margarine clearly identified and neither adulterated nor misbranded, and constitutes a burden on interstate commerce in such articles. Such burden exists, irrespective of whether such oleomargarine or margarine originates from an interstate source or from the State in which it is sold.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.

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Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1950, see section 7 of act Mar. 16, 1950, set out as a note under section 347 of this title.

§347a Congressional Declaration of Policy Regarding Oleomargarine Sales