196.755. Coloring of imitation butter prohibited.
Coloring of imitation butter prohibited.
196.755. 1. No person shall combine any animal fat orvegetable oil or other substance with butter, or combinetherewith or with animal fat or vegetable oil or combination ofthe two, or with either one, any other substance or substanceswhatever, any annatto or compound of the same, or any othersubstance or substances, for the purpose or with the effect ofimparting thereto a yellow color, or any shade of yellow, so thatsuch substitute shall resemble yellow or any shade of genuineyellow butter, nor introduce any such coloring matter or suchsubstance or substances into any of the articles of which thesame is composed; provided, nothing in said sections 196.750 to196.810 shall be construed to prohibit the use of salt andharmless coloring matter for coloring the substitutes for buttermanufactured for export or sale outside the state.
2. No person shall, by himself, his agents or employees,produce or manufacture any substance in imitation or semblance ofnatural butter, nor sell, nor keep for sale, nor offer for sale,any imitation butter made or manufactured, compounded or producedin violation of this section, whether such imitation butter shallbe made or produced in this state or elsewhere.
3. This section shall not be construed to prohibit themanufacture and sale, under the regulations herein provided, ofsubstances designed to be used as a substitute for butter, andnot manufactured or colored as herein prohibited.
(RSMo 1939 § 14073)Prior revisions: 1929 § 12434; 1919 § 12005; 1909 § 651