Oleomargarine: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representative, Seventy-eight Congress, First Session, on H. R 2400

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 438 pages

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Page 32 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 343 - This is also reported to have included small quantities of oleomargarine made "exclusively from animal oil" from 1918 through 1915. ' This total represents the sum of the quantities shown for each type and is the total as reported by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the US Department of Agriculture. The...
Page 339 - That for the purpose of this act the word "butter" shall be understood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter.
Page 33 - science upon which the applied science used in these activities depends. Its membership is largely composed of accredited representatives of about seventy-five national scientific and technical societies. Its essential purpose is the promotion of scientific research and of the application and dissemination of scientific knowledge for the benefit of the national strength and well-being. The...
Page 371 - The project was originally recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council, the organization which has given the subject of relative food value of butter and oleomargarine much attention in recent years.
Page 103 - The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded. (b) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic in interstate commerce.
Page 103 - The following acts and the causing thereof are hereby prohibited: (a) The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded.
Page 286 - If it is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
Page 11 - Provided, When oleomargarine is free from artificial coloration that causes it to look like butter of any shade of yellow said tax shall be one-fourth of one cent per pound.
Page 104 - ... or both such imprisonment and fine; but if the violation is committed after a conviction of such person under this section has become final such person shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than three years, or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both such imprisonment and fine.