4 . The Bulletin. 



the treasury of the State, for the benefit of the Department of Agriculture, to be 

 used exclusively in executing the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 3. That the chemists or other experts of the Department of Agriculture 

 shall make, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Agriculture, 

 examinations of specimens of food, beverages and condiments offered for sale in 

 North Carolina, which may be collected from time to time under their directions 

 in various parts of the State. If it shall appear from such examination that any 

 of the provisions of this act have been violated, the Commissioner of Agriculture 

 shall at once certify the facts to the proper solicitor and furnish that officer a 

 copy of the result of the analysis, duly authenticated by the analyst under oath. 

 In all prosecutions arising under said act as amended the certificate of the chemist 

 making the analysis or test, when duly sworn to by such analyst, shall be prima 

 facie evidence of the fact or facts therein certified. If it shall appear from such 

 examination or analysis that any of the provisions of said act have been or are 

 being violated, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall cause to be published in the 

 newspaper having the largest circulation in the town or city in which such viola- 

 tion has been committed, and in any other newspaper, in his discretion, a brief 

 statement of the results of the examination or analysis, \\'ith the name of the 

 person or firm having committed such violation, and the name of the person or 

 firm manufacturing or packing such product. 



Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of every solicitor to w'hom the Commissioner 

 of Agi-iculture shall report any violation of this act to cause proceedings to be 

 commenced and prosecuted without delay for the fines and penalties in such cases 

 provided. 



Sec. 5. That the term "food" as used herein shall include all articles iised for 

 food, candy, condiment or drink by man or domestic animals, whether simple, 

 mixed or compound. The term "misbranded" as herein used shall include all 

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

 or label of which shall bear any statement purporting to name any ingredients or 

 substances as being contained or not being contained in such article, which state- 

 ment shall be false in any particular. 



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

 adulterated — 



First. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed or packed with 

 it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously aflfect its quality or strength so that such 

 product when ofl'ered for sale shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser. 



Second. If any inferior substance or substances has or have been substituted, 

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

 tend to deceive the purchaser. 



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

 abstracted so that the product when sold shall deceive or tend to deceive the 

 purchaser. 



Fourth. If it be an imitation of and sold under the specific name of another 

 article. 



Fifth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, polished or stained in a 

 manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, so that such product when 

 sold shall deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser. 



Sixth. If it contain any added poisonous ingredient or any ingredient which 

 may render such article injurious to the health of the person consuming it. 



If it contain any of the following substmces, which are hereby declared dele- 

 terious and dangerous to health when added to human food, to-wit : Colors which 

 contain antimony, arsenic, barium, lead, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, 

 uranium or zinc; or the following colors: gamboge, coralline, picric acid, aniline, 

 or any of the co il-tar dyes: saccharine, dulcin. glucin or any artificially or 

 syntiietically prepared substitute for sugar; parafline, formaldehyde, beta-napthol, 

 abrnstol, benzoic acid or benzoaiee, 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 whidi it is retailed, contain 

 not to exceed two-tenths of one per cent of benzoic acid or its equivalent in sodium 

 benzoate. Fermented liquors may contain not to exceed two-tenths of one per cent 



