Evening star., 1897-01-07
DRUGS AND FOODS
Bill to Prevent Their Adulteration in
the District.
WHAT COMES UNDER each HEAD
Detailed Regulations Against the
Sale Of Impure Food.
PEN NALTIES PROVIDED

The bill to prevent adultera ton of drugs
and foods in the District of Columbia,
which was introduced in the House yester-
day by Mr.. Mccormick of New York, as
noted in The Star, provides detailed regu-
lations for preventing the sale of impure
food.
The bill provides that no person shall,
within the District of Columbia, by himself
or by his servant or agent, or as the serv-
ant or agent Of any other person, sell, ex-
change or deliver or have in his custody
or possession with the intent TO sell or
exchange, or expose or offer for sale or
exchange, any article of food or drug
which is adulterated within the meaning
of this act, and the courts shall construe
the provisions of this act literally, SO
to prevent the mischief intended to be
guarded against.
The term drug" as used in this act,
shall include all medicines for external or
internal use, antiscptics, disinfsctants and
cosmetics. The term food as used here
In, shall include confectionery, condiments
and all articles used for food or drink by
man.
An article shall be deemed to be adu-
terated within the meaning of this act:
In the case of drugs-FirSt, if, when sold
under or by name recognized in the
United States pharmacopoeia, it differs from
the standard of strength, quality or purity
laid down therein: second, IL, when sold un-
der or by a name not recognized in the
United States pharmacopoeia but which is
found in some other pharmacopoeta or
other standard work or materia medica, it
differs from the strength, quality or purity
laid down in such work; third If. when
sold as a patented medicine. compounded
drug or mixture, it is not composed of all
of the ingredients advertised or printed or
written on the bottles wrappers or labels
of or on with the patented medicine, corn
pounded drug or mixture.
Food AddIteratiOn.
An article shall be deemed to be adulter-
ated within the meaning of this act in the
case of food, as follows:
First if any substance or substances
have been mixed with 1t SO as to reduce or
lower or inturiously affect its quality or
strength; second, If an inferior or cheaper
substance or substances have been substi
tuted wholly or in part for it; third If any
valuable constituent has been wholly or in
part distracted from it; fourth, if it is an
imitation of or is sold under the name of
another article; fifth, if it consists wholly
or in part of a diseased, decomposed, pu-
trid or rotten animal or vegetable sub
stance, whether manufactured or not;
sixth, If it is colored, coated, polished or
powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or
If 1t Is made to appear better or of greater
value than it really is: seventh, II 1t con-
tains any added poisonous ingredient or
any ingredient which may render il in
furious to the health of person ccnsum-
ing it; eighth, in the case of milk, if 1t
contains less than three and one-half per
centum of fat, less than nine per centum
of solids not fat, and contains more than
eighty-Seven and one-haf per ceEtum of
water; ninth, in the of butter and
cheese, if it is not made exclusively from
milk or cream, with or without common
salt; the butter. if 1t contains more than
twelve per centum of salt, and less than
Tenth. In the case of coffee, If 1t is not
composed entirely of the seed of the cdffer
erabica; eleventh, in the case of lard. if it
is not made exclusively from the rendered
fat of the hog: twelfth, in the case of tea,
If it is not composed entirely of the gem
uine leaf of the tea plant not exhausted;
thirteenth, In the case of all kinds CT Vine
gar, ii it contains an acidity equivalent to
the presence of less than per centun of
absolute acetic acid and cider vinegar if
1t is not made from the legitimate product
OF pure apple juice and contains less than
l.5 per centum of total solids; four
teenth, in the case of cider, if it is not
made from the legitimate product of pure
apple juice and free from salicylic acid or
other preservatives.
Fifteenth, in the case of glucose, if it
contains less than % per cent of ash: six
teenth, in the case of -four, if 1t is not COM
posed entirely of ground wheat, free from
bran, perfectly white or having faint
yellow tinge and contains more than Il
per centum of ash, less than 10.5 per
centum of albnmnoids, and more than -
per centum Of moisture; seventeenth in
the case of bread, if there is any addition
OF alum, sulphate of copper, borax, or sui
phate OF zinc, and contains more than 81
per centum of moisture, more than = rer
centum of ash, and less than 625 per
centum of albumoids
Eighteenth, In the case of olive oil, if it
IS not made exclusively from the olive
berry (olea europaea), and its specific gray
ity at 80 $40 degrees centigrade go de-
grees FahrenheD, actual density 10 be
not more than .917 nor less than .914
Any person or persons violating any Of
the provisions of this act shall be desm.d ID
guilty of misdemeanor and upon con-
viction shall be punished by fine of not
less than s. nor more than 500.