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rary permits to any applicants therefor to ship or transport milk and/or cream into the United States.

The Secretary is authorized to suspend or revoke any permit for the shipment of milk or cream into the United States when he shall find that the holder thereof has failed to comply with the provisions of or has violated this act or any of the regulations made hereunder, or that the milk and/or cream brought or shipped by the holder of such permit into the United States is not produced and handled in conformity with, or that the quality thereof does not conform to, all of the provisions of section 2 of this act.

UNLAWFUL RECEIVING OF IMPORTED MILK OR CREAM

SEC. 4. [144] It shall be unlawful for any person in the United States to receive milk or cream imported into the United States unless the importation is in accordance with the provisions of this act.

PENALTIES

SEC. 5. [145] Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this act shall, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 6. [146] There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 per annum, to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out the provisions of this act.

REPEAL OF INCONSISTENT LAWS

SEC. 7. [147] Any laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

POWERS OF STATE WITH RESPECT OF MILK OR CREAM LAWFULLY

IMPORTED

SEC. 8. [148] Nothing in this act is intended nor shall be construed to affect the powers of any State, or any political subdivision thereof, to regulate the shipment of milk or cream into, or the handling, sale, or other disposition of milk or cream in, such State or political subdivision after the milk and/or cream shall have been lawfully imported under the provisions of this act.

DEFINITIONS: "PERSON"; "UNITED STATES"

SEC. 9. [149] When used in this act

(a) The term "person" means an individual, partnership, association, or corporation.

(b) The term "United States" means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.

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FILLED MILK

§ 61. Filled milk; definitions.

Whenever used in this chapter

(a) The term "person" includes an individual partnership, corporation, or association;

(b) The term "interstate or foreign commerce" means commerce (1) between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; (2) between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or within the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or (3) within any Territory or possession, or within the District of Columbia; and

(c) The term "filled milk" means any milk, cream, or skimmed milk, whether or not condensed, evaporated, concentrated, powdered, dried, or desiccated, to which has been added, or which has been blended or compounded with, any fat or oil other than milk fat, so that the resulting product is in imitation or semblance of milk, cream, or skimmed milk, whether or not condensed, evaporated, concentrated, powdered, dried, or desiccated. This definition shall not include any distinctive proprietary food compound not readily mistaken in taste for milk or cream or for evaporated, condensed, or powdered milk, or cream where such compound (1) is prepared and designed for feeding infants and young children and customarily used on the order of a physician; (2) is packed in individual cans containing not more than sixteen and one-half ounces and bearing a label in bold type that the content is to be used only for said purpose; (3) is shipped in interstate or foreign commerce exclusively to physicians, wholesale and retail druggists, orphan asylums, child-welfare associations, hospitals, and similar institutions and generally disposed of by them. (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 1, 42 Stat. 1486.)

§ 62. Same, manufacture, shipment, or delivery for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce prohibited.

It is declared that filled milk, as defined in section 61 of this title is an adulterated article of food, injurious to the public health, and its sale constitutes a fraud upon the public. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture within any Territory or possession, or within the District of Columbia, or to ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any filled milk. (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 2, 42 Stat. 1487.)

§ 63. Same; penalty for violations of law; acts, omissions, and so forth, of agents.

Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both. When construin

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