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"Section 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the 

 meaning of this act, 



(a) In the ease of food: (1) If auy substance or substances have 

 been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect 

 its quality, strength or purity. (2) If any inferior or cheaper sub- 

 stance or substances have been substituted wholly or io part for it. 

 (3) If an^- valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been 

 wholly or in part abstracted from it. (4) If it is an imitation of or 

 is sold under the name of another article. .(5) If it consists wholly or 

 in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten 

 animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or 

 not — or in case of milk, if it is the product of a diseased animal. (6) 

 If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage or 

 inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear bet- 

 ter or of greater value than it really is. (7) If it contains any added 

 substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health: 

 Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures 

 or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of arti- 

 cles of food, if each and every package sold or offered for sale be dis- 

 tinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, and are not injurious to 

 health." 



Under this act, one thousand three hundred and sixty-nine (1,369\ 

 samples of food were taken by the Department and analyzed: 



Table drinks analyzed, 



Soda fountain drinks 



Meats, sausages, etc., 



Prepared foods 



Canned fruits and vegetables 



Syrups, sugars, etc., 



Table oils 



Baking powders 



Candles 



Spices and condiments 



Extracts, 



Jams, jellies and marmalades 



Dried fruit 



Total, 



Samples analyzed for special purposes 



Total 



81 

 SI 

 101 

 11 

 SI 

 BS 

 4 

 26 



a 



173 

 243 



24 



783 



This exhibit reveals not only the condition of the food products 

 found upon the markets of the State during the two and a half years 

 preceding July, 1902, but also shows the vast amount of work that 

 has been performed in the interest of the public health. This work 

 consisted not only in the collecting of the five thousand and twenty- 



