The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-02
THE PURE
FOOD LAW
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR
ENFORCING THE ACT.
DRUGS AND FOODS
The Manner of Determining When
Foods and Drugs are Adulterated
or Misbranded.- The Penalties for
Evading the Law.
DRUGS AND @

The pure food act, approved June
So, 1906. is entitled AN Act for pre-
venting the manufacture, sale or tran
s~portation of adulterated or misbrand
ed Or poisonous or ~deleterious foods,
durgs, medicines and liquors, and
for regulating traffic therein, and for
other purposes" 1t took effect by its
terms On January 1, 1907.
Under section 3 of this act the sec
retaries of the departments of the
treasury, agriculture and commerce
and labor, are required to make uni
form rules for carrying out the provi-
sion of the act. The administration
of the law has therefore eel placed
under the charge of a commission ap-
pointed by these three departments.
The treasury department is represent
ed by James l.. Gerry, the department
of agriculture by DR.. Harvey w. Wi
ley and the department of commerce
and labor by S. N. d. North, director
of the census. DR.. Wiley, is chair
man. The commission met and riga
lied in the city of New York, Septem
Der II, 1906, and proceeded to pre-
pare rules and regulations for carry
ing out the provisions of this act
The first section of the act makes
it unlawful for any person to manu-
facture within the District of Column
bia or any territory, an article of
food or drug which is adulterated
or miSbranded, under a penalty not
to exceed $500 or one years imprison
ment, or both, at the direction of the
court for the first Offense, and not to
exceed $1,000 and one years imprison
ment, or both for each subsequent
offense.
CA1T;o, . of 4hiC aof nooEnc II annl1-
cable to food or drugs introduced into
any state from any other state, and
from or to any foreign country
The sections descriptive of the ar
ticles which comes within the scope
of the act are as follows:
Section 6. The term drug" as
used in this act, shall include all me-
dicines and preparations, recognized
in the United States pharmacopoeia
or national formulary for internal or
external use, and any substance or
mixture of substances intended to be
for the cure mitigation or pre-
vention of disease of either man or
other animals. The term food, as
used herein, shall include all articles
used for food, drink, confectionery or
condiment by man or other animals,
whether simple, mixed or compound.
Section Z. For h purpose of this
an article shall be deemed adul-
terated."
In case of drugs:
First. If, when a drug is sold or
under a name recognized by the Unit
tates pharmaeopoeia or national
formulary, it differs from he stan
dard of strength, quality or purity. as
determined by the test laid down in
the United States pharmacopoeia or
national formulary official at the time
of investigations: Provided, that no
drug defined in the United States
pharmacopoeia Dr. national formulary
be deemed to be ad~ulterated
under this provision if h standard
strength, quality or purity be plainly
upon the bottle, box or other
container thereof, although the stan
lard may differ from that determined
the test laid down in the United
States pharmacopoeia or national for
mulary-
Second. If this strength or puri-
ty fall below the protested standard
or quality under which it is sold"
In the case of confectionery:
eff it contains terra alba, barytes.
tale chrome yellow, or other mineral