Every person who adulterates or dilutes milk and every person who sells, offers, or keeps for sale milk so adulterated or diluted, or who transports or stores such milk to be used for human consumption or for the purpose of submitting it to the process of pasteurization or any other process preparatory for human consumption, and every person using adulterated or diluted milk for industrial purposes, when such milk is to be used in the preparation of food for human consumption, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, punished, for the first offense, by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). Recidivism shall be punished by confinement in jail for not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500), and by revocation of the license. Provided, That for the purposes of §§ 791—795 of this title adulterated milk shall be considered any milk containing any substance not authorized by the Secretary of Health through regulations to that effect, or any poisonous or deleterious substance, or any other substance extraneous to the milk that might harm public health.
History —Aug. 12, 1925, No. 77, p. 558, § 1; June 17, 1955, No. 77, p. 282, § 1; July 23, 1974, No. 234, Part 2, p. 218, § 1.