The Bulletin 7 



EXTRACT FROM FOOD LAW. 



Sec. 6. That for the purpose of this act an article shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated, in the case of food — 



First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it, so as to reduce 

 or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for the 

 article. 



Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part 

 abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner 

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingre- 

 dient which may render such article injurious to health. If it contains anj 

 of the following substances, which are hereby declared deleterious and dan- 

 gerous to health when added to human food, to wit: Colors which contain 

 antimony, arsenic, barium, lead, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, ura- 

 nium, or zinc; or the following colors: gamboge, corallin, picric acid, aniline, 

 or any of the coal-tar dyes; dulcin, glucin, or any other artificially or syn- 

 thetically prepared substitute for sugar except saccharine; paraffin, formal- 

 dehyde, beta-napthol, abrastol, benzoic acid or benzoates, salicylic acid or 

 salicylates, boric acid or borates, sulphurous acid or sulphites, hydrofluoric 

 acid or any fluorine compounds, sulphuric acid or potassium sulphate or wood 

 alcohol: Provided, that catsups and condimental sauces may, when the fact 

 is plainly and legibly stated in the English language on the wrapper and 

 label of the package in which it is retailed, contain not to exceed two-tenths 

 of one per cent of benzoic acid or its equivalent in sodium benzoate. Fer- 

 mented liquors may contain not to exceed two-tenths of one per cent of com- 

 bined sulphuric acid, and not to exceed eight-thousandths of one per cent of 

 sulphurous acid. 



Sixth. 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 had died otherwise than by slaughter. In addition to the ways 

 already provided, sausage shall be deemed to be adulterated if it is composed 

 in any part of liver, lungs, kidneys or other viscera of animals: Provided. 

 that the use of animal intestines as sausage casings shall not be deemed to be 

 an adulteration. 



Seventh. If it differs in strength, quality or purity from the standards ol 

 purity of food products that have been or may be from time to time adopted 

 by the Board of Agriculture. 



Sec. 7. That the term "misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all 

 drugs or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, 

 the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device re- 

 garding such article or the ingredients or substances 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 or country 

 in which it is manufactured or produced — 



That for the purpoce of this act an article shall also be deemed to be mis- 

 branded, in the case of food — 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name 

 of another article. 



Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the pur- 

 chaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or 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 it fail 

 to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any mor- 

 phine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, canabis, 

 indica, chloral, hydrate or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of 

 any such substances contained therein. 



Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight 

 or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the 

 package. 



