No person or persons, corporation, company or other association or congregation of individuals shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale, directly or indirectly, at retail or at wholesale in this state any article to be known or denominated cheese, not made from pure cream or unskimmed milk or cream of the milk, unless such person, or persons, corporation, company or association of individuals manufacturing the same, or offering the same for sale, or selling the same, shall brand or label such cheese or articles so offered for sale denominated a cheese, with black letters not less than one inch in length in a conspicuous place and of large size in the English language as follows: "Skimmed milk cheese", or with the words "not full cream cheese", giving the true name of such article called cheese so manufactured or offered for sale, clearly and indelibly branded, marked or labeled thereon, so that the same can be distinctly read and fully comprehended, at all stores or places or factories where the same may be offered for sale.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 196.735
Labeling of cheese
Known as the The Missouri Manufacturing Milk and Dairy Market Testing Law
The act spans §§ 196–196 (161 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 14069); Prior revisions: 1929 § 12418; 1919 § 11989; 1909 § 643
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.