196.545. Unlawful sale of dairy products.

Unlawful sale of dairy products.

196.545. It shall be unlawful to sell, offer or expose forsale, or deliver manufacturing milk or any dairy products madefrom manufacturing milk which:

(1) Are produced by animals afflicted with a contagious orinfectious disease deleterious to man or detrimental to milkquality;

(2) Are not colostrum free or which have been taken from acow fed or in contact with any substance that is unhealthful orthat may produce unhealthful, impure or unwholesome milk;

(3) Are adulterated by the addition of any unauthorizedsubstance including water or other material foreign to milk;

(4) Have been handled by any person afflicted with aninfectious or contagious disease; or

(5) Are produced in unhealthy or unsanitary surroundings orheld in unclean or unsanitary containers.

(RSMo 1939 § 14102, A.L. 1981 H.B. 52)