---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 347a"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "347a"
heading: "Congressional declaration of policy regarding oleomargarine sales"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/347a"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter IV — Food"
---

# §347a. Congressional declaration of policy regarding oleomargarine sales


The Congress hereby finds and declares that the sale, or the serving in public eating places, of colored oleomargarine or colored margarine without clear identification as such or which is otherwise adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Federal [Food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f), [Drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1), and Cosmetic Act [[21 U.S.C. 301](/usc/21/301.md) et seq.] depresses the market in [interstate commerce](/usc/21/321.md?p=b) for butter and for oleomargarine or margarine clearly identified and neither adulterated nor misbranded, and constitutes a burden on [interstate commerce](/usc/21/321.md?p=b) in such articles. Such burden exists, irrespective of whether such oleomargarine or margarine originates from an interstate source or from the [State](/usc/21/321.md?p=a-1) in which it is sold.


## Source credit

(Mar. 16, 1950, ch. 61, § 3(a), 64 Stat. 20.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 301 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1950, see section 7 of act Mar. 16, 1950, set out as a note under section 347 of this title.