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High Court UpholdsFilled Milk Law I amThe recent decision of the tui Supreme Court of the United States ' upholding the constitutionality ol n:! the 123 Filled Milk Act, will be nejlabeled as a major victory for i j Organized dairy farmers in their I■plt;fight against the Philippine cocoa- J )?0nut cow, according tn Robert E.Brcivn, director of Sanitary Milk MiProducers from this district. VisTht Act which was challenged by ^ the Carolene Products Company,'-f w ~ * *The government contended that th Act was a valid exercise of Fed-cr tl power and that filled milk constituted a threat to public health because it was sold and used litplace of evaporated milk while fail in ; to measure up in fat value.Litchfield, 111., forbids interstate Tshipments of filled 'milk, defined °neaicas an imitation of evaporated wholemilk,' made by condensing the avaponded-skimmed milk and then taisubstituting a foreign fat, such as C!i cocoanut oil, for the butterfat Me“The Substitution of cocoanut oilfor butterfat in filled milk, saidMr. Brown, “constitutes a mostserious threat *to the dairy industry __ in America because it results in ^' great quantities of butterfat, which 1would normally be used in the Chmanufacture of evaporated whole rej milk, being thrown upon the adi American butter market, thereby rec tending to depress the price of tobutter. American farmers cannot toaflbhd to produce butterfat In com- topetition with cocoanut oil brought Mr in irom the Philippine Islands duty free. , 1 mi
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Troy Free Press
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, May 06, 1938
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