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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-27-15: Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 97. Crimes
- Chapter 27. Crimes Affecting Public Health
Any butcher or other person who shall knowingly sell the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, or any baker, brewer, distiller, or other person, who shall knowingly sell unwholesome bread or drink, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years nor less than one year.
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