The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-27

Frst-1f any substance has been mix
ed and packed with it so as to reduce or
injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Second If any substance has been
substituted wholly or in part.
Third-If any valuable constituent has
been substituted wholly or in part.
Fourth-If it be mixed colered, pow
dered, coated or stained in a manner
whereby damage or inferiority is con-
cealed.
Fifth-If it contain any added poison
GUS or deleterious ingredient which may
render such article injurious to health.
Sixth-If it consists in whole or in
part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid
animal or vegetable substance, or any
portion of an animal unfit for food. or if
it is the product of diseased animal or
one that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
1t provides that articles covered by the
act shall be deemed 'smisbranded'' when
the package or liable shall bear any state
ment regarding the ingredients which
shall be false or misleading in any par
ticular, or which shall falsely state the
State. Territory or country where manu-
faetured or produced. It further provides
that a drug shall be deemed 'misbrand-
ed'' if it be an imitation of or offered for
sale under the name of another article;
OF if the contents of the original package
shall have been removed in whole or in
part and other contents placed in the
package.
1t provides that food Tor drink shall
be deemed misbranded:
First-If it be an imitation of or offer
ed for sale under the distinctive name of
another article.
Second-If it be labeied or branded SO
as to deceive or mislead the purchaser or
falsely purport to be foreign product.
Third-If in package form the quanti-
ty of the contents of the package be not
plainly and correctly stated in terms of
weight or measure on the outside of the
package.
Fourth-If the package containing it,
or its label, shall bear any false or mis-.
leading statement, design or device re
garding the ingredients.
Ii the following described cases arti-
cIes are not to be considered adulterated
or misbranded:-
First-In the case Of mixtures or COM
pounds, known as articles of food under
their own distinctive names and not an
imitation of or offered for sale under the
distinctive nafe of another article. pro-
yided the label or brand shall contain a
statement where the article has been
manufactured OE pIOQuCGu.
Second-In the case of articles labeled,
branded or tagged, so as to plainly in
dicate that they are compounds, imita-
tons. or blends And in this connection
the bill describes the word blend as
used therein to mean a mixture of like
| 1.z4ax,ao, na+ ovnli,d;n0 harmless color
/ ing or fiavoring ingredients. 1t is further
provided that manufacturers of proprie-
tary articles which contain no unwhole-
some added ingredient shall not be re-
quired to disclose their trade formulas
except in so far as may be necessary to
prevent adulteration or misbranding.
AS first agreed upon by the House COM
mittee. the section requiring the labelling
Of drugs required that each package or
bottle should show upon its label state
ment of the quantity or proportion of
any alcohol therein, or of any opium, CO.
caine or other poisonous substance which
may be contained therein"
The Lowering amendment, which the
patent medicine people want, will allow
small quantities Of alcohol, morphine or
opium to be used without anything being
said about them on the label This
amendment provides that drugs shall be
considered misbranded only: If the eop-
teuts of the original package shall have
been removed, in whole or in part, and
other contents shall have been placed in
sneh package, or if when the article con
tanned be not described in the United
States Pharlnacopoea or National For
mulary and be not the prescription of a
regularly licensed physician, the package
fan to bear statement on the label of
the quantity or proportion of any alcohol,
morphine, opium, cocaine, herein, alpha
or beta eucaine. or choral hydrate, or any
preparation of amy such substances
contained therein Provided, however.
thar he quantity or proportion Of alco-
hol need not be stated when not more
than the ouantity or proportion prescrib-