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Statutes > Alabama > Title20 > Chapter1 > 20-1-28Section 20-1-28
Manufacture, sale, etc., of soft drinks, etc., colored with coal tar preparation, etc., or sweetened with artificial sweeteners; labeling and display for sale of artificially sweetened soft drinks, etc., manufactured for special dietary use by certain persons.
(a) No person, firm or corporation shall manufacture or knowingly sell or give away or keep for sale any soda water or other soft drink or beverage colored with any coal tar preparation (except those colors which are certified to and whose use has been authorized and indorsed by the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States) or other mineral substance or sweetened with any other than pure fruit syrups or pure cane or beet sugar, except as may otherwise be provided for by subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Soda water or other soft drinks or beverages containing an artificial or nonnutritive sweetening which are manufactured for special dietary use by persons requiring a sugar-free diet may be manufactured and sold in this state in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. No such soda water or other soft drinks or beverages shall contain any artificial nonnutritive sweetener which has not been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. The bottle or other container in which such soda water or other soft drinks or beverages are sold or offered for sale to the public shall be clearly, legibly and noticeably labeled. Such label shall contain the words "FOR DIETARY PURPOSES," or "DIETETIC," or words of similar import, in printing or type of a size to be determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, and the words: "Contains _____ (name of approved artificial nonnutritive sweetening product), a nonnutritive artificial sweetener for use by persons who must restrict their intake of ordinary sweets." Such soda water or other soft drinks or beverages when sold at retail shall be displayed and segregated from ordinary soda water, soft drinks or other beverages which have been sweetened with pure fruit syrups or pure cane or beet sugar. The portion of the store, display counter, shelving or other place where such artificially sweetened soda water or other soft drinks or beverages are displayed or offered for sale shall be clearly and plainly identified by an appropriate sign reading "FOR DIETARY PURPOSES."
(Code 1907, §7082; Acts 1915, No. 467, p. 489; Code 1923, §4437; Code 1940, T. 2, §313; Acts 1955, No. 228, p. 537.)