NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1121

SENATE BILL 792

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF COLORING IN BREAD AND BUNS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 22 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section immediately after G.S. 106-225.2 to be designated as G.S. 106-225.3 and reading as follows:

"Sec. 106-225.3.  No loaves of bread, rolls, or buns shall be sold or offered for sale for human food which are artificially colored by natural or synthetic dyes, pigments, or other means."

Sec. 2.  Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in G.S. 106-230.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective ten days after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.