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Show Old French Laws Hard on Food Adulterators A French milkman who was recently recent-ly caught selling adulterated milk was surprised to hear from the presiding magistrate the punishment meted such an offense In the original statute, enacted under King Louis XI (HS1). It provided that anyone who sold watered milk should have a funnel put Into his throat and bis own milk should be poured down It until a doctor doc-tor certified that he could not, without with-out danger to his life, swallow any more. Sellers of stale eggs were to be put Into the pillory, nnd their eggs given to children, who would be encouraged en-couraged to pelt the wrongdoers with their own unsavory wares. Those who sold adulterated butter were to stand In the pillory with the butter on their beads until the sun had melted it all! If there was no sun, they were to be fastened up In front of the fireplace In the Jail to undergo the same indignity. |