Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15


metics. The term food, used herein
shall include all arr icles used for food or
drink or condiment by man, whether SIM
ple mixed or compound and all articles
used or intended for use as ingredients IN
the composition thereof or in the prepara-
ton thereof
Section 1901. An article shall be
deemed to be adulterated within the mean
ing of the preceding section:
l. In the case OF drugs: First, III, Wnen
sold, or offered or exposed for sale or had
in possession with intent to sell, under or
by name recognized in the United states
pharmacopoeia or national formulary, 1t
differs from the standard of strength, quail
ity or purity laid down in the latest
edition thereof. current at. the time when
such drug Is sold or offered or exposed for
sale or had in possession with intent to
quality or purity falls below the professed
standard under which it is sold; third. if
it contains wood alcohol except when in
tended for external use only and so la
beed.
2 In the case of food: First, if any
substance or substances have been mixed
juriously affect its strength, quality or
purity second, if any inferior or cheaper
substance or. substances have been sub
stituted wholly or in part for it, third,
if any valuable or necessary ingredient has
been wholly or in part distracted from 1t,
or il it is below that standard of quality,
strength OF purity represented to the pur-
chaser or consumer fourth, II 1t is an lml-
tation Of, or sold or offered or exposed for
sale under the name of another article
fifth, if it consists OF or is manufactured,
wholly or in part, from dlS-
eased, contaminated, filthy, decomposed,
tainted rotten animal or vegetable sub
stance or any animal or vegetable substance
produced stored, transported. or kept in a
condition that tends to render the article
diseased, contaminated or unwhOlesome, or
if it is any part of the product of dis.
eased animal, or the product OF an animal
that has died otherwise than by slaughter;
sixth, if it is Mixed cOlOred, coated, pol
ished, powdered, or stained, where
by damage or inferiOrity is concealed, or so
that it tends to deceive or mislead the pur-
chaser or consumer, if by any means it
is made to appear better or of greater value
than it really is. or if it Is cOlOred or fla
vored in imitation of the genuine color or
flavor of another substance; seventh, II 1t
contains any added substance or Ingredient
which is poisonous, injurious, or deleterious
to health, OF any deleterious substance not
a necessary ingredient in its manufacture
provided, that any article of food
visions of the fourth. fifth, sixth and sew
enth specifications of this section, and
which does not contain any filler or in
gredent which debases without adding food
value, shall not be deemed adulterated in
the case of mixtures compounds sold
coined names, if the same be so labeled,
branded or tagged as plainly to show their
true character and composition. And pro-
vided further, that nothing in this act shall
be construed as requiring or compelling pro-
prietors or manufacturers of proprietary
foods to disclose their trade formulas, ex-
cept as far as may be necessary to secure
freedom from adulteration, imitation or
fraud
Section Q This act shall take effect and
Approved May g. 1909.