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N.Y. AGM Law § 49

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Insanitary cans and receptacles condemned

Official statutory text

§ 49. Insanitary cans and receptacles condemned. All cans, or\nreceptacles used in the sale of milk, cream or curd for consumption, or\nin transporting or shipping the same to market or the delivery thereof\nto purchasers for consumption as human food, when found by the\ncommissioner or his assistants or agents to be in unfit condition to be\nso used by reason of being worn out, badly rusted, or with rusted inside\nsurface, or unclean or insanitary or in such condition that they can not\nbe rendered clean and sanitary by washing, and will tend to produce or\npromote in milk, cream or curd when contained therein, bad flavors,\nunclean or unwholesome conditions favorable to unhealthfulness or\ndisease, shall be condemned by the commissioner or his assistants or\nagents. Every such can or receptacle when so condemned shall be marked\nby a stamp, impression or device, designed by the commissioner, showing\nthat it has been so condemned, and when so condemned shall not\nthereafter be used by any person for the purpose of so selling,\ntransporting or shipping milk, cream or curd.\n

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