N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 62: Coloring matter, dairy terms, size of package, labeling, false advertising

§ 62. Coloring matter, dairy terms, size of package, labeling, false

advertising. No person, manufacturing with intent to sell, any substance

or article to be used as a substitute for cheese and which is not made

exclusively from unadulterated milk or cream or both, with or without

salt or rennet or both but into which any animal, intestinal or offal

fats, or any oils or fats or oleaginous substance of any kind not

produced from pure, unadulterated milk or cream, or into which melted

butter, or butter in any condition or state or any modification of the

same, or lard or tallow shall be introduced, shall add thereto or

combine therewith any annatto or compounds of the same, or any other

substance or substances whatever, for the purpose or with the effect of

imparting thereto a color resembling yellow, or any shade of yellow

cheese, nor introduce any such coloring matter or other substance into

any of the articles of which the same is composed. No person

manufacturing, selling or offering for sale any oleaginous substance not

made from pure milk or cream from the same, designed to take the place

of butter, shall make or sell the same under any brand, device or label

bearing words indicative of cows or the product of the dairy or the

names of breeds of cows or cattle, nor use terms indicative of processes

in the dairy in making or preparing butter; no oleaginous substance not

made from pure milk or cream from the same, designed to take the place

of butter, shall hereafter be sold, offered or exposed for sale in this

state unless

(1) such substance is packaged,

(2) the net weight of the contents of any package thereof sold in a

retail establishment is one pound or less,

(3) there appears on the label of the package (a) the word

"oleomargarine" or "margarine" in type or lettering at least as large as

any lettering on such label, (b) a statement of the net weight of the

contents of the package, and (c) a full and accurate statement of the

ingredients contained in such substance, and

(4) each part of the contents of the package is contained in a wrapper

which bears the words "oleomargarine" or "margarine" in type or

lettering not smaller than twenty point type.

No person, firm, association or corporation shall, in connection or

association with the sale or exposure for sale, advertisement, or on the

package, of any substance designed to be used as a substitute for

butter, represent or suggest by any means whatever that such substance

is a dairy product, except that nothing herein contained shall prevent

an accurate statement of any of the ingredients contained in such

substance.