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Every person who knowingly sells, or keeps or offers for sale or 

 otherwise disposes of any article of food, drink, drug or medicine, 

 knowing that the same has become tainted, decayed, spoiled or 

 otherwise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten or drank, with intent 

 to permit the same to be eaten or drank by any person or animal, is 

 guilty of a misdemeanor. (P. C; R. C, 1895, chap. 40, §§ 7309 

 and 7310.) 



OHIO. 

 This law prohibits the manufacturing or selling of any adul- 

 terated article of food. Adulteration is deemed to be as follows: 

 Any article which has mixed with it, or abstracted from it, any 

 ingredient which lowers its quality or is injurious; any article 

 made in imitation of, or sold under the name of another article, or 

 falsely branded, or upon which art has been used to conceal 

 inferiority, or in which there is fraud or deceit. (Laws 1884; 

 -amended by Laws 1890.) 



OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. 

 It is deemed a misdemeanor to sell or offer for sale adulterated 

 food knowing it to be adulterated. (Laws 1890, chap. 25.) 



OREGON. 



The sale or exchange, etc., of unwholesome, unclean, etc., foods 

 of any kind whatever is prohibited. If adulterated food is sold it 

 must be plainly marked so as to establish its true character; if in 

 eating^rooms, the bill of fare shall state the fact that it is used; 

 if there is no bill of fare, notice must be posted in a conspicuous 

 place in said room. (Laws 1893, p. 99.) 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Number 233 of the Laws of 1895 prohibits the manufacture for 

 sale, offering for sale or selling, any article of food which is adul- 

 terated within the meaning of the act; defines the term '' food " 

 as used therein to include all articles used by man for food or 

 drink, whether simple, mixed or compound, and prescribes what 

 shall be deemed " adulterated food." Samples for analysis are to 

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