The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-03-30
THE ACTS OF ASSEM- BLY.
LAWS PASSED AT TIE RECENT SES-
SESSION CFTHE LEGISLATURE
The Text In Full of Some OF the Principal
Additions to the Statutes Of South Caro-
INSPECTION FOOD, DRUGS, ETC.

lima.
INSPECTION FOOD, DRUGS, ETC.
An Set to provide for the inspection
of food, drugs, spirituous, ferment-
ed and malt liquors, and to provide
for the punishment for adulteration
thereof.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly OF the State of South
Carolina: That no person shall within
this State manufacture, brew, distill,
bave, offer for sale, or sell, any srti-
cles OF food, drugs, spirituous, fer
mented or malt liquors which are
adulterated within the meaning Of
this Act, and any person violating
this provision shall be deemed guilty
OF q mlsdemeanor, and upon convic'
ton thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by
Imprisonment not exceeding fifteen
DAYS, for the first offence; and not ex.
ceeding one hundred dollars or i'm
prisonment for thirty days, or both,
for each subsequent offence.
Section Q. The term food" as used
in this Act shall include every article
used for food or drink by man, ,includ-
ing all candies, teas, coffees and spir.
ituous, fermented and malt liquors.
The term drug" as used in this Act
shall include all medicines for inter
nal or external use.
Section 3. An article shall be deem
ed to be adulterated within the mean
ing of this Act: (a) In the case Of
drugs:
l. #, when sold under or by name
recognized in the United States Pnar-
macopoeia, it differs from the stand
ard OF strength, quality or purity laid
down therein.
3. If, when sold under or by name
not recognized in the United States
Pharmacopoeis, but which is found
IN some other Pharmacopoeia or other
standard work on Pharmacopoeia Ms
terra Medica, it differs materially from
the standard of strength, quality or
purity laid down in such work.
8. # its strength or purity falls be-
low the professed standard under
which it is sold. (o) In case OF food
or drink:
l. If any substance or substances
has or have been mixed with it SO as
to reduce or lower or injuriously af-
feet its quality or strength.
Q. # any inferior or cheaper sub
stance or substances has or have been
substituted wholly or in part for the
article.
8. If any valuable constituent of the
article has been wholly or in part alb
stracted.
4. # it be an imitation OF or be sold
under the name of smother article.
{. If it consists wholly or in part OF
q deceased, or decomposed, or putrid,
or rotten animal or vegetable sub
stance, whether manufactured or not,
or in the case of milk, ii it is the pro-
duce of a diseased animal
s. II i! be colored, or coated, or pol
ished, or powdered, whereby damage
IS concealed, or it is made to appear
better than it really is or of greater
value.
Z. If it contains any added poison
Gus ingredient, or any ingredien.
which may render such article inju-
rious to the health of the person con-
suming: Provided, that the State
board of health may declare from time
to time certain articles or preparations
to be exempt from the provisions of
this Act: And provided, further, that
the provisions of this Act shall not
apply TO mixtures or compounds re-
cognized as ordinary articles OF food,
provided that the same are not inJurl.
Gus to health and that the articles are
distinctly labelled as mixture, stat
ing the components OF the mixture.
(c) In the case of spirituous, fer
mented and malt liquors, ifit contains
any sustancs or ingredient not nor
NAL or healthful to exist in spirituous,
fermented or malt liquors, or which
may be deleterious or detrimental to
health when such liquors are used as
beverage or as a medicine; and If 1t
does not conform in respect to strength
and purity required by the laws OF this
State.
Section I. It shall be the duty OF
the State board Of health to prepare
and publish from time to time lists OF
the articles, mixtures or compounds
declared to be exempt from the provl-
sions of this Act in accordance with
the preceding section. The State board
of health shall from time to time tx
the limits of variability permissible in
any article Of food or drug, ci com.
pound, the standard of witch is not
established by any rational Pharnaa
copoeia.
Section 5. The State board of health
shall take cogniznncs of the interests
of the public health as it relates to the
sale of food, drugs, spirituous, fer.
mented and malt liquors, aDd the ad-
liberation thereof, and make all neces-
sary inquiries and Investigations re-
lating thereto, and for such purposes
may appoint inspectors, analysis and
chemists, who shall be subject to its
supervision and removal. Within
sixty days after the passage OF this Act
the said State board of health shall
adopt such measure as it may deem
necessary to facilitate the enforcement
thereof. It shall prepare rules and
regulations with regard to the proper
method OF collecting and examining
drugs, articles of food and spirituous,
fermented and malt liquors.
Section 6. Every person offering or
exposing Ter sale, or delivering to a
purchaser, any drug or article OF food,
or spirituous, fermented or malt IL
quors included under the provisions
of this Act, shall furnish to any fan
alyst, or other officer or agent appoint.
ed hereunder, who shall apply to him
for the purpose, and shall tender to
him the value of the same, a sample
sufficient for the purpose of analysis
of any such drug or article of food or
drink which is in his possession.
Whoever hinders, obstructs or N any
way interferes with any inspector, an
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