Section 196.735

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 196

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   

  196.735.  Labeling of cheese. — No person or persons, corporation, company or other association or congregation of individuals shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale, directly or indirectly, at retail or at wholesale in this state any article to be known or denominated cheese, not made from pure cream or unskimmed milk or cream of the milk, unless such person, or persons, corporation, company or association of individuals manufacturing the same, or offering the same for sale, or selling the same, shall brand or label such cheese or articles so offered for sale denominated a cheese, with black letters not less than one inch in length in a conspicuous place and of large size in the English language as follows: "Skimmed milk cheese", or with the words "not full cream cheese", giving the true name of such article called cheese so manufactured or offered for sale, clearly and indelibly branded, marked or labeled thereon, so that the same can be distinctly read and fully comprehended, at all stores or places or factories where the same may be offered for sale.

­­--------

(RSMo 1939 § 14069)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12418; 1919 § 11989; 1909 § 643