The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-06-30
PURE FOOD BILL
AGREED UPON BY SENATE AND
HOUSE coNFERE5S.
NO COMPULSORY SAMPLES
Five Hundred Dollars Fine and One
Years Imprisonment for Offenders
Act to Take Effect January 1st

Washington.-The pure food bill
was agreed upon by the conferees for
the Senate and House Wednesday and
was reported to the Senate just before
adjournment. The House bill was Ia.
ken as basis of agreement, and into
this were grated many of the import
ant sections of the Senate measure,
which had been given great attention
by Senators McCumber and Hepburn,
extending over three sessions of Con,
gress.
With the exception of two sections
the bills were not materially different,
Two provisions of the House bill were
eliminated entirely. They were the
sections which authorized the secre-
tary of agriculture to fix the standards
of the various articles of food as to the
wholesomeness or unwholesomeness
of the various preservatives. and
which would compel the person sell
ing drugs or articles of food to fur
nish samples of such product for an
alyss
The bill as agreed upon makes it
misdemeanor for any person to manu-
facture, sell or offer for sale any ar
ticle of food, drugs, medicines or liq-
uors which is adulterated or mis-
branded. or which contains any poison
Gus O. deleterious substance.
1t prescribes for each offense fine
not to exceed $500. one years impris-
onment, or both. within the discretion
of the court and for each subsequent
offense a fine of not less than 81 goo OF
one years imprisonment.
Section prohibits the Introduction
into any state or territory or the Dis
yrie pf Cn1py,, hi., from Dth her state
territory or district, or the shipment
to any foreign country of any article
adult Grated or misbranded within the
meaning of the act. under penalty not
exceeding fine of 5000 for the first
offense and $500 or one years lmpris-
onmant or both for each subsequent
offense.
Concerning shipments to foreign
country, it is provided that no article
shall be deemed misbran9ed or adul-
terated when no substance is used IN
conflict with the laws of the foreign
country for which it is intended Thls
clause, however, does not exempt any
person from prosecution if the article
is offered for sale for domestic use or
consumption.
Confectionery is held TO be adulter-
ated if it contains any ingredient or
toiol4HS lidttSl bciCtNi iot' "a N%'A
mental to health. Foods are held adul-
terated if containing any substance re-
ducing, lowering or injuriously affect
ing its quality or strength: when any
substance has been substituted wholly
Or in part for the article; when any
valuable constituent has been ao-
stracted; when mixed. colored, pow
dered or stained to conceal damage or
inferority or any poisonous or deletec-
ious ingredients added. The use OF
preservatives by external application
is permitted when the directions for
removal of such preservatives are
printed on the covering OF the pack
age.
Food products are declared adulter-
ated if in whole or in part or a hllhy,
deconposed or putrid animal OF 'ese-
table substance or of any portion OF
an animal unfit for food. whether man
ufactured or not, or if the product OF
diseased animal or one that mas dled
otherwise than by slaughter.
Dealers are protected against pros.
ecution if they hold the guaranty or
the concern from whom they pur-
chased the articles.
The bill makes provision for court
procedure and for confiscation OF artl-
cles violative of the act, and samples
of food or drugs imported are to be
furnished the chemistry bureau by the
Treasury Department, articles declded
against to be imported within three
months or destroyed.
Pending decisions imports may be
delivered under a penal bond for the
amount of the full invoice value. The
act is to take effect January LIST next.