2000 Minnesota Statutes

     33.01 "Butter" or "buttered" in advertising or 
  representing certain products unlawful.  

    It shall be unlawful for any person to make, publish, 
 disseminate, circulate, or place before the public, or directly 
 or indirectly cause to be made, published, disseminated, 
 circulated, or placed before the public, in this state, in a 
 newspaper or other publication, or in any book, notice, 
 handbill, poster, bill, label, circular, pamphlet, or letter, or 
 in any other way, any publication advertising in any manner, or 
 to represent that any food product or article of food produced 
 or manufactured, in whole or in part, out of or from any animal 
 fats or vegetable oils, or any article or product manufactured 
 or produced in imitation or semblance of natural butter, not 
 produced wholly from pure, unadulterated milk or cream, in or as 
 a part of or connected with which publication, or 
 representation, the words "butter" or "buttered" are used or 
 appears; however, the word "butter" or "buttered" may be used in 
 designating the following:  (1) A food article known to the 
 trade as "plum butter," "apple butter," or "peanut butter," when 
 used in connection with the name of the article from which it 
 was manufactured; and (2) a food article which is labeled with 
 the word "butter" or "buttered" immediately preceding the name 
 of the food and which contains a minimum of 51 percent butter as 
 shortening except for pretzels which shall contain a minimum of 
 ten percent butter as shortening, and complies with rules 
 promulgated by the commissioner.  Nothing herein contained shall 
 repeal or modify any of the provisions now in force for the 
 labeling of the food product known as oleomargarine.  

    HIST: (3917) 1921 c 309 s 1; 1963 c 832 s 1; 1967 c 345 s 1; 
 1985 c 248 s 70