2024 Laws of Puerto Rico
TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706)
Chapter 41 - Regulation of Milk Industry (§§ 1081 — 1125a)
§ 1122 - Prohibition
It shall be unlawful, within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, exhibit for sale or supply, interchange, possess, cede or transport artificial milk known as filled milk or imitation milk.
This prohibition shall not include any particular food product with a trademark, with a flavor not to be easily confused with that of milk or with milk cream, or with the milk or cream of evaporated, condensed or powdered milk, when such compound: (1) is prepared and intended for the feeding of infants and young children and is regularly used through medical prescription; (2) if packaged in individual tin containers with no more than sixteen and a half ounces, and bears a label which states in letters clearly distinguishable that the contents can only be used for said purpose; and (3) is supplied at wholesale or retail exclusively to physicians and pharmacists, orphan asylums, children welfare associations, hospitals and similar institutions where it is generally dispensed by the latter.
History —June 25, 1969, No. 67, p. 206, § 3.
