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      Sec. 21a-154. (Formerly Sec. 19-286). Manufacture and sale of bread. (a) Standard loaves of bread, produced in any bakery and procured or kept for the purpose of sale, offered or exposed for sale or sold, shall be of the following standard avoirdupois weight: One pound or additional fraction of one pound up to a maximum of four pounds. The provisions of this section shall not apply to biscuits, buns, crackers, rolls or loaves weighing less than one-quarter pound per unit, or to what is commonly known as "stale" bread, and sold as such, provided the seller at the time of sale shall expressly state to the buyer that the bread so sold is stale bread. Loaves of bread produced in any bakery which weigh less than the standard minimum weight of one pound herein provided for, which are procured or kept for the purpose of retail sale, offered or exposed for sale or sold, shall have their weight plainly and conspicuously stated in one of the following ways: The weight marks on such wrappers or labels shall be printed in plain, heavy, gothic, capital letters and figures not less than five thirty-seconds of an inch in height and shall not be affixed to the loaf in a manner or with a gum or paste which is unwholesome or unsanitary. Bread when wrapped in the bakery for the purpose of retail sale shall bear labeling showing an accurate determination of weight in the same manner as heretofore provided. No loaf of bread shall be produced in any bakery which, within twelve hours after baking, varies more than one ounce per pound below the standard or marked weight. The weight of twelve loaves of bread selected at random shall not be less than the total of the standard of marked weight of such loaves.

      (b) Any person who, by himself or his agent or servant, violates any provision of this section or of any regulation adopted under section 21a-156 with respect thereto shall, upon the first conviction, be fined not more than two hundred dollars and, upon a subsequent conviction, be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3893; 1949, S. 2078d; P.A. 84-97, S. 2.)

      History: Sec. 19-286 transferred to Sec. 21a-154 in 1983; P.A. 84-97 divided section into Subsecs. and substituted regulations "adopted" to regulations "made" under Sec. 21a-156.