Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-01-09

stipation.
part distracted.
4. Ii it be mixed, colored, pow
dered, coated or stainedin manner
whereby damage is concealed.
>. If t contains any added
poisonous or other added deleterious
ingredient which may render such
article injurious to health.
8, If it contains in whole or in
part of a filthy, decomposed or
putrid animal or vegetable substance
or an animal that died otherwise than
slaughter.
MIsBRANDED FOODS.
Food is declared to be misbranded
and subject to the penalties of the
federal law
l. If it be an imitation of or
offered for sale under the distinctive
name of another article.
.. If it be labeled or branded so
as to deceive or mislead the pur-
chaser.
3 If it purports TO be foreign
product when not SO.
/. If part Of the contents be re-
moved and substituted.
D. If it fail to bear a label of
quantity or proportion Of morphine,
opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta
eucane, chloroform, cannabis indica,
chloral hydrate or acetanilide.
8. If in package form and con-
tents are stated in terms of weight
or measure, they are not plainly and
correctly stated on outside of pack
age.
Z If the package containing it
or its label shall bear any statement,
design or device regarding the in
gradients or the substances con-
tanned which is false or misleading
in any particular.
APPLIED To CONFECTIONERY AND DRUGS
The national pure food law also
applies specifically to confectionery,
which is declared to be adulterated
if it contain terra alba, barytes
chrome yellow, tale, or other mineral
substance or poisonous color or
flavor, or other ingredient deleterious
or detrimental to health or any
vinous, malt or spirituous liquor or
compound or narcotic drug.
Pure drugs after January l are
likewise required by the national
act, which declares drugs to be
adulterated-
!. Ii when drug is sold under
or by a name recognized in the
United States. Pharmacopoeia or
National Formulary, it differs from
the standard of strength, quality or
purity unless so stated plainly on
label.
2. If it's strength or purity fall
below the protested standard or
quality under which it is sold.
Drugs are to deemed misbr.nded
and subject to the penalties of the
federal law if the contents of the
package as originally put up shall
have been removed and substituted
in whole or part, or if the package
fail to bear label of the quantity or
proportion Of any alcohol, morphine,
opium, cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine,
chloroform, cannabis, indica, choral
hydrate or acetanilide or any deriv-
alive.
FEDERAL ANTI-PAss LAW.
The anti-pass section of the
national railroad act, which goes in
to effect New Years day, is much
more sweeping than the anti-pass
law enacted by the last Iowa legis-
lature. While the Iowa law in
general forbids the issuance Of rail-
way passes to public officials, the
federal .law applying to interstate
commerce prohibits passes to the
general public with certain specified
exceptions.
The federal anti-pnss law forbids
the issuance of any Interstate free
ticket, free pass or free transportation
for passengers, except in the fol-
lowing cases:
Railway employees and their fam
lilies
Railway officers, agents, surgeons,
physicians and attorneys at law.
Ministers Of religion, travelling
secretaries of railroad Y. NJ. @. A. 8.
Inmates of hospitals and char
table and elemosynary institutions.
Persons exclusively engaged in
charitable and elemosynary work.
Judgment, destitute and homeless
persons.
Inmates of national and state SOL
diers and sailors homes.
Caretakers of live stock. poultry
and fruit.
Employees on sleeping cars, ex-
press cars, telegraph and telephone
linemen, newsboys on trains, bag
gage agents.
Railway mail service employees,
post-oflice inspectors, customs in
spectors and immigration inspectors.
Witnesses attending any legal in
vestigation in which a railroad is in
terested.
Persons injured in wrecks and
physicians and nurses attending.
Reliefin cases of general epidemic,
pestilence or other calamitous vista
ton.
Interchange of passes for railway
officers, agents, employees and their
families.