Commonwealth v. Hufnal

Citations

• 185 Pa. 376
• 39 A. 1052
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 726

Syllabus

<p>Food law — Shimmed milk — Ael of June 26, 1895 — Criminal law.</p> <p>“Skimmed milk” is the generic term by which is meant milk from which its natural cream has been taken in part or in whole. The process of removing the cream is a mere incident, and the result in the product is a difference only in the proportion of the cream or fatty constituents left in it, a difference of quality only, and not greater, as appears, than that In milk skimmed once, or skimmed twice, in the old-fashioned way, and after twelve hours’, or after twenty-four hours’ setting. It is not, therefore, an indictable offense under the Act of June 26, 1895, P. L. 817, entitled “An act to provide against the adulteration of food,” etc., to sell, as “ skimmed milk,” milk from which the cream or butter fat has been taken by the centrifugal or “ separator” process.</p>