Michigan · statute · 211 of 1893, Mich. Comp. Laws · 10 active provisions
The commissioner shall appoint a suitable and competent person as state analyst, who shall be a practical analytical chemist. The commissioner may appoint an assistant chemist and such inspectors as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Before entering upon the duties of their offices, they shall…
It shall be the duty of the dairy and food commissioner to carefully inquire into the dairy and food and drink products and the several articles which are foods or drinks, or the necessary constituents of foods or drinks, which are manufactured or sold or exposed or offered for sale in this state, and he may, in a lawf…
(1) The commissioner, his or her deputy, or any person by the commissioner duly appointed for that purpose, is authorized at all times to seize and take possession of any and all food and dairy products, substitutes therefor, or imitation thereof kept for sale, exposed for sale or held in possession or under the contro…
It shall be unlawful for the state analyst, while he holds his office, to furnish to any individual, firm or corporation, any certificate as to the purity or excellence of any article manufactured or sold by them to be used as food or in the preparation of food.
The commissioner shall make an annual report to the governor on or before the first day of July in each year, and which shall be printed and published on or before the first day of September next thereafter, which report shall cover the doings of his office for the preceding fiscal year, which shall show, among other t…
Any person who shall willfully hinder or obstruct the dairy and food commissioner, or his deputy, or other person or inspector by him duly authorized, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than 10…
It shall also be the duty of the dairy and food commissioner to foster and encourage the dairy industry of the state, and, for that purpose, he shall investigate the general conditions of the creameries, cheese factories, condensed milk factories, skimming stations, milk stations and farm dairies in this state, with fu…
Whenever it is determined by the dairy and food commissioner, his deputy or inspectors, that any person is using, selling or furnishing to any skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, milk depot, farm dairy, milk dealer, the retail trade or to any consumer of milk, any impure or unwholesome m…
Whenever it is determined by the dairy and food commissioner, his deputy or inspectors, that unsanitary conditions exist or are permitted to exist in the operation of any skimming station, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, milk depot, or farm dairy, the proprietor or proprietors, or manager of said skim…
The published annual report of the dairy and food commissioner which shall be made to the governor, shall include a complete accounting of all moneys received by the department from every source, and the amount expended by the department.