The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-08-23
GOOD LAW.
ID Miseasure That HAS Just
Gone Into Effect
)SSED LAST WINTER.

Is Law Makes II Illegal For Any
One to Sell in South Carolina Any
AduIterated Food or Drug or. Soil
lttye Same Under False Label ana
Prescribes Heavy penalties for yio-
latiag 1t.
The pure food law passed at the
last session of the Legislature went
INTO effect last Tuesday. The law
was made to supplement the food
End drug law passed by Congress,
nd is quite sweeping in, it's provis-
IONS. The full text of.the law is pub
lished below:
Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State of South Caro-
lima:
Section l. That it shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to manufacture
or sell, or offer for sale, any article
of food or drugs which is adultera-
ted or misbranded within the mean
ing ofSchis Act, and any person who
shall violate any of the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars or by i'm
prisonment not exceeding fifteen
days for the first offence, and one
hundred dollars or thirty days inn
prisonment for each subsequent Of
fence.
Section g.. That the terms drug"
as used in this Act, shall include all
medicines and preparations recogniz-
ed in the United States Pharmacop.
Oeia or National Formulary or u. S..
Dispensatory for internal or external
use, and any substance or mixture
OF substances intended, to be used for
%he. cure, mitigation or prevention of
disease of either man or other ami
mails %The term food" as used
herein, shall include all articles used
Tor .fooa, drink. confectionery, or
condime4t by man or other animals,
whether simple, mixed or compound.
Section 3. That for the purpose of
this Act an article shall be deemed to
be a~dulterated: In Ease Of drugs and
flavoring extracts: First. If. when
q drng or flavoring extract is sold
under or by a name recognized in
the United States Pharmacopoeia or
National Formulary or u. S. Dispen-
satory, it differs from or does not
conform to the standard Of strength,
quality " purity. as determined by
the test laid down in the United
States Pharmacopoeia, National For
mulary, or u. S. D~ispensatory, Off
cial at the time of investigation.
In the case of confectionery:
If it contains terra alba, barytas,
tale, chrome yellow, or other miner
al substance or poisonous color fla
vor,. or other ingredient deleterious
or detrimental to health, or n
vlnous, malt, or spirituous liquor or
compound, or narcotic drug.
IN the es.s { feed food:
First. If any substance has been
mixed and packed with it so as to re-
duce or lower or injurionsly affect
its quality or strength.
N.oiu' - any ouDoCdiiCc Has DCcIl
substituted wholly OF 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, colorcd,
powdered, coated or stained in a
mander whereby damage or inferi-
GRITTY is concealed.
Fifth. If it contain any added pois-
onous or other added deleterious in
gredient which may render such ar
ticle injurious to health: Provided,
that when in the preparation of food
products for shipment they are pre-
served by any external application,
applied in such manner that the pre-
sentative is necessarily removed ma
chanically, or by macerationin water,
or otherwise, and directions for the
removal of said p~reservative shall be
printed on the covering or the pack
age, the provisions Of this Act shall
be construed as applying only when
said products are ready for consump-
ton.
Sixth. If it consists in whole or in
part Of a filthy, decomposcd or put
rid 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 other
wise than by slaughter.
Section d. That the term "mis-
branded as used herein, shall ap-
ply to all drugs or articles of food,
or articles which enter into the com
position of food, the package or label
of which shall bear any statement,
design or device regarding such ar
ticle, or the ingredients or substanc-
es contained therein which shall be
false or misleading in any particular,
and to any food or drug product
which is falsely branded as to the
State, territory o country in which
it is manufactured or produced. That
for the purposes Of this Act an arti-
Gle shall be also deemed to be mis-
branded:
In al of drugs:
First. If it be an imitation of or
offered for sale under the name of
another article.
Second. If the contents of the
package as originally put up shall
have been removed. in whole or in
part, and other contents shall have
been placed in such package, or if
the package fail to bear Q statement
on the label of the quantity or pro-