Mello-drink products resemble milk products so closely that they lend themselves readily to substitution for and confusion with such milk products and in many cases cannot be distinguished from milk products by the ordinary consumer. The manufacture, sale, exchange, purveying, transportation, possession with intent to sell or offering for sale or exchange or purveyance of Mello-drink products creates a condition conducive to substitution, confusion, deception and fraud, and one which, if permitted to continue without some controls, tends to interfere with the orderly and fair marketing of foods essential to the well-being of the people of this state. It is hereby declared to be the purpose of this act to correct and eliminate the condition above referred to; to protect the public from products manufactured under unhealthy and unsanitary conditions; to protect the public from confusion, fraud and deception; to prohibit practices inimical to the general health and welfare; and to promote the orderly and fair marketing of essential foods.
Laws 1971, c. 96, § 3, operative July 1, 1971. Renumbered from Title 2, § 7-303 by Laws 1987, c. 206, § 97, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 236, § 205, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987.