Akt. 8.] Sale, Etc., of Food and Food Peoducts 1941 



ARTICLE 8 



Sale, Adulteration or Misbranding of Food and Food Products 



Section 200. Prohibition as to adulterated or misbranded food. 

 201. Definition of adulterated or misbranded food. 



§ 200. Prohibition as to adulterated or misbranded food. jSTo 

 person or persons, firm, association or corporation shall within 

 this state, manufacture, produce, sell, offer or expose for sale any 

 article of food which is adulterated or misbranded within the ^°°^- 

 meaning of this article. The term '' food " as used herein shall 

 include all articles used for food, confectionery or condiments by 

 man, whether simple, mixed or compound. 



§ 201. Definition of adulterated or misbranded food. In the case f'ted^con- 

 of confectionery, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated if 

 it contain terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow, or other min- 

 eral substances or poisonous colors or flavors, or other ingredients 

 deleterious or detrimental to health. In the case of food -an article ated^f^ood. 

 shall be deemed to be adulterated: 



1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed or 

 packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its 

 quality or strength, so that such product, when offered for sale, or strength, 

 shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser. 



2. If any substance or substances has or have been substituted f^^*-^^"^' 

 wholly or in part for the article, so that the product, when sold or 

 offered for sale, shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser. 



3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or f^^^^^^"' 

 in part abstracted, so that the product, when sold or offered for 



sale, shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser. 



4. If it contains any added poisonous ingredient or any in- J;;^"^^""^^ 

 gredient which may render such article injurious to the health of 



the person consuming it. 



5. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or 

 putrid 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 otherwise than by 

 slaughter. 



Unfit for 

 food. 



