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$500; and the sum of said bond may be increased from time to time and additional sureties required at the discretion of the Secretary or his delegate. SEC. 4815. REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO DEALERS. (a) SELLING REQUIREMENTS.—Dealers in adulterated butter must

sell only original or from original stamped packages, and when such original stamped packages are broken the adulterated butter sold from same shall be placed in suitable wooden, tin-plate, or paper packages, which shall be marked and branded as the Secretary or his delegate shall prescribe. (b) BOOKS OF WHOLESALE DEALERS.—Books required by section 6001 to be kept by wholesale dealers in process, renovated, or adulterated butter shall be open at all times to the inspection of any officer or employee designated by the Secretary or his delegate. SEC. 4816. EXPORTATION OF ADULTERATED BUTTER.

Adulterated butter may be removed from the place of manufacture for export to a foreign country without payment of tax or affixing stamps thereto, under such regulations and the ffiing of such bonds and other security as the Secretary or his delegate may prescribe. Every person who shall export adulterated butter shall brand upon every tub, firkin, or other package containing such article the words "Adulterated Butter", in plain Roman letters not less than one-half inch square. SEC. 4817. INSPECTION OF PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER.

For the purpose of protecting interstate and foreign commerce from process or renovated butter which is unclean, unwholesome, unhealthful, or otherwise unfit for human food— (1) INGREDIENTS.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall, through ' inspectors appointed by him, cause inspections to be made of all • milk, butter, butter oil, and other ingredients intended for use in the ' manufacture of process or renovated butter. All ingredients which ' are found to be putrid or decomposed or which contain organic or • inorganic substances which are foreign to such ingredients when ' properly made, manufactured, produced, collected, stored, trans'^' ported, or handled, and which organic or inorganic substances cani not be removed by processing, shall be deemed unfit for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter, shall be marked "U. S. Inspected and Condemned", and shall be denatured or destroyed under the supervision of the inspector. All other ingredients shall be marked "U. S, Inspected and Passed", and shall be deemed fit i for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter. (2) FINISHED PRODUCT.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause inspections to be made of all process or renovated butter. If such butter is found to be clean, wholesome, healthful, and otherwise fit for human food, it shall be marked "U. S. Inspected and Passed". Process or renovated butter that is found to be unclean, unwholesome, unhealthful, or otherwise unfit for human food shall be denatured or destroyed under the supervision of the inspector. (3) FACTORIES.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause inspections to be made of all factories wherein process or renovated butter is manufactured to determine the sanitary conditions thereof, and if it is found that the conditions existing in any such factory do not § 4817(3)

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