Chap. 580.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsections 3 and 19 of an act
entitled an act to enact into law the rules and regulations of the dairy and
food commissioner fixed and established by and with the approval of the
board of agriculture and immigration, concerning food and food products
and the sanitation of all places used in the manufacture, packing, storing,
sale or distribution of food or food products, approved March 15, 1924, and
to amend the said act by the addition thereto of four new sections to be
numbered 22, 23, 24 and 25. ({H B 123]

Approved March 31, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
sections three and nineteen of an act entitled an act to enact into law
the rules and regulations of the dairy and food commissioner fixed and
established by and with the approval of the board of agriculture and
immigration, concerning food and food products and the sanitation of
all places used in the manufacture, packing, storing, sale or distribu-
tion of food or food products, approved March fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows:

Subsection 3. Food in the process of manufacture, preparation,
packing, storing, sale or distribution, must be securely protected from
flies, dust, dirt and as far as may be necessary, from all other foreign
or injurious contamination. The provisions of.this regulation shall
also apply to the following fruits: Grapes, raisins, currants, figs,
prunes, dates, berries, cherries and plums.

Subsection 19. All foods offered or exposed for sale in Virginia
must be branded or labeled in English on the principal label, in type
not smaller than eight point caps, and on same kind of background as
the word or words with which they are associated; provided, in case
the size of the package will not permit the use of eight point cap type,
the size of the type may be reduced proportionately so as to truly and
clearly set forth the contents of the material so branded or labeled,
and if such foods are artificial, imitation, compound, blended or
adulterated, the words “artificial,’’ ‘‘imitation,’’ ‘‘compound,”’
“blended,” ‘‘adulterated,’’ or such permitted qualifying term as may
be used, must immediately precede or follow the word or words they
modify, and be shown in type equally as prominent as is the name of
the article simulated.
The information required to be shown on the containers of bever-
ages or drink products may appear either on a label pasted on the con-
tainer or on the crown cap on the container. The entire information
required must appear either on the label pasted on the container or on
the crown, it may not be shown in part on either or both, nor may it
be shown blown in the bottle.

2. That the following new sections be, and the same are hereby,
added to the said act, which new sections shall read as follows:

Section 22. Eggs showing deterioration by chemical analysis or
otherwise shall not knowingly be sold as fresh eggs, but shall be classed
as storage eggs and so marked, and all invoices and copies of same
covering storage goods must be plainly marked ‘‘storage goods” in
type or writing sufficiently large to be easily discernible.

Section 23. Genuine Smithfield hams, sides, shoulders and jowls
are hereby defined to be the hams, sides, shoulders and jowls which
are cut from the carcasses of peanut-fed hogs, raised in the peanut
belt of the State of Virginia or the State of North Carolina, and which
are cured, treated, smoked and processed in the town of Smithfield,
in the State of Virginia. No person, firm or corporation shall, know-
ingly, label, stamp, pack, sell or offer for sale in this State any ham,
side, shoulder or jowl as genuine Smithfield ham, side, shoulder or
jowl, either in or out of a container, unless such ham, side, shoulder or
Jow! be a genuine Smithfield ham, side, shoulder or jowl as hereby

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Packing houses situated in the town of Smithfield, engaged in the
business of packing hams, sides, shoulders or jowls, as hereby defined,
shall be subject to the inspection of this division.

ction 24. No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly sell
or offer for sale in this State, any live hog as a peanut-fed hog raised in
the peanut belt of the State of Virginia or State of North Carolina,
unless such hog was, in fact, so fed and raised; and no person, firm or
corporation shall knowingly sell or offer for sale in this State, any
whole dead hog, or any cut from the carcass of a dead hog, and repre-
sent, in any manner that such hog had been peanut-fed and raised in
the peanut belt of the State of Virginia or the State of North Carolina,
unless such was the fact, or represent that such cut from the carcass
of a dead hog was taken from a peanut-fed hog, raised in the peanut
belt of the State of Virginia or the State of North Carolina, unless such
was the fact.

Section 25. No person, firm or corporation, other than a person,
firm or corporation actually engaged in agriculture and slaughtering
hogs raised upon his, their or its own premises, or the farm of some
other, in this State, shall sell or offer for sale to any person, firm or
corporation, any dead hog, or cut therefrom, unless it bears some
mark of identification to be designated by this division, showing where
and when it was slaughtered. This paragraph shall have no applica-
tion to any establishment in this State covered by the inspection of
the United States agricultural department.