The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-03

/ The new Pure Food Law went into
operation January 1. 1t Is a measure
that is causing great deal Of confu-
sion and trouble among liquor and
/ grocery dealers. It is especially trou-
blesome to grocery people.
/ Following are some Of the most i'm
/ portant provisions of the law:
! Sec. 7. That for the purpose Of this
| Act an article shall be deemed to be
aduterated:
| In case of drugs:
/ First IT, when a drug is sold under
| or by a name recognized in the United
States Pharmacopoeia or National For
muary, it differs from the standard of
| strength quality, as determined by the
| test laid down in the United states
! Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary
| official at the time of investigation.
Provided, That no drug defined in the
| United States Pharm9copoeia Or Ma
tional Formulary shall be deemed to
be adulterated under this provision if
/ the standard of strength, quality, or
purity be plainly stated upon the bot
tie, box, or other container thereof al
though the standard may differ from
that determined by the test laid down
in the United States Pharmacopoeia
or National Formuary.
| Second. If it's strength or purity fall
below the professed standard or quail
ity under which it is sold.
In the case of confectionery:
If it contain terra alba, barytes, tale,
chrome yellow, or other mineral sub
stance or poisonous color or flavor, or
mental to health, or any vinous, malt
or spirituous liquor or compound or
narcotic drug.
In the case of food:
First If any substance has been
| mixed and packed with il so as to re-
duce or lower or injuriously affect it's
quality or strength.
! Second. If any substance has been
substituted wholly or in part for the
/ article.
Third. If any valuable constituent of
/ the article has been wholly or IN part
! distracted.
Fourth If it be mixed, colored, pow
! dered, coated, or stained in a manner
whereby damage or inferiority is con-
| cealed.
Fifth. If it contain any dded pots
! onous or other added deleterous ingre-
dent which may render such article in
! furious to health: Provided, ,rhat when
in the preparation of food products for
shipment they are preserved by am
, external application applied in such
manner that the preservative is nee
! essarily removed mechanically, or by
maceration in water, or otherwise, and
| directions for the removal of said pre-
servative shall be printed on the COW
ering or the package, the provisions Of
this Act shall be construed as applying
only when said products are ready for
consumption.
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,
whether manufactured or not, or if it
/ is the product of a diseased animal or
one that has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
! Sec. s. That the term "misbrand-
ed" as used herein, shall apply to all
drugs, or articles of food, or articles
which enter into the composition of
food, the package or label of which
shall bear any statement, design, or de-
vice regarding such article, or the in
gradients or substances contained
therein which shall be false or mis-
leading in any particular and-so any
food or drug product which is falsely
branded as to the state, Territory, or
country in which it is manufactured or
produced.
That for the purposes of this Act an
article shall also be deemed to be mis-
branded:
In case of drugs:
First. If it be an imitation of or Of
fered for sale under the name of an
other article.
Second. If the contents of the pack
age as originally put up shall have been
removed, in whole or in part, and 9TH
er contents shall have been placed in
such package or if the package fail to
bear a statement on the label of the
quantity or proportion of any alcohol,
morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, all
. / lUd OF bclu tuCdlllt' NLllDl Sl'L IL N''''
nabis indica, choral hydrate, or ace
rsoo0oceQ4c NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
porary pole erected in the same posi-
ton as the old light.
Honolulu Harbor, Oahu Island, page
13.-Light No. 4, fixed red lens-lan-
tern light, II feet above the water, on
single pile in about % feet of water
about 70 feet to the eastward of the
easterly edge of the channel, abreast
of and about $40 feet ESE Is E. from
Light No. 8, and about 1926 feet (9-16
mue) S. by w. 1-16 w. from Honolulu
Range Front Light, was destroyed by
the heavy seas during the storm on
the night of December 81. The struc-
ture will be rebuilt and the light re-
established as soon as practicable.
Honolulu Harbor, oahu Island, page