Sec. 21a-62. (Formerly Sec. 19-208). Analysis of food.
Sec. 21a-62. (Formerly Sec. 19-208). Analysis of food. The local health authority
of any city, borough or town may procure, from any dealer in provisions, groceries,
medicines or other articles for human consumption, samples of such articles and cause
the same to be analyzed by one of the state chemists and if, on such analysis, it is found
that the article analyzed is adulterated with a deleterious or foreign ingredient, other
than is represented verbally and in a conspicuous label by the seller, the chemist making
the analysis shall issue his certificate setting forth the kind and quantity, as near as may
be, of deleterious and foreign ingredients found in the article analyzed. The director of
health causing such analysis to be made shall cause such certificate to be published in
some paper published in the city, borough or town, or one nearest thereto, where the
article analyzed was obtained, for such length of time as he thinks necessary, and the
cost of analysis and the cost of the publication of the certificate shall be paid by the
person or firm from whom the article analyzed was obtained. If such person or firm so
elects, he or it may annex to such certificate an affidavit setting forth from whom the
article analyzed was purchased. In each case where an analysis has been made according
to the provisions of this section and the article analyzed has been found pure and free
from foreign ingredients, the cost of the analysis shall be paid by the city, borough or
town whose director of health caused such analysis to be made.
(1949 Rev., S. 3898.)
History: Sec. 19-208 transferred to Sec. 21a-62 in 1983.