SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. I4l 



Sec. 7. The word "commissioner/' whenever used in this act, shall be 

 taken to mean the State Food and Dairy Commissioner herein provided 

 for. The word "food," as herein used, shall include all articles used 

 for food, drink, confectionary or condiment, by any man or domestic 

 animals, whether simple, mixed or compound. The term "misbranded" 

 as herein used, shall apply to all articles of food, or articles which enter 

 into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear 

 any statement regarding the ingredients or substances contained in such 

 article, which statement shall be false or misleading in any particular 

 and to any food or product which is falsely branded as to the state or 

 country in which it is manufactured or produced, or shall bear any 

 false statement regarding the net weight or quantity contained in the 

 package. 



Sec. 8. For the purpose of this act, an article of food shall be deemed 

 to be adulterated: 



First, If any substance or substances has or have been mixed and 

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

 ity, strength or purity. 



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

 wholly ^or in any part for the article. 



Third, If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or 

 in part abstracted. 



Fourth, If it be in imitation of, or offered for sale, under the specific 

 name of another article. 



Fifth, If it be mixed, colored, powdered or stained, in a manner 

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Sixth, If it contains any added poisonous ingredients, or any ingredi- 

 ent which may render such article injurious to health, or if it contains 

 saccharine or formaldehyde. 



Seventh, If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the 

 purchaser, or purport to be a foreign article when not so. 



Eighth, If it consist of the whole or any part of a diseased, 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; provided, that an article of food which does not contain any 

 added poisonous or deleterious ingredient shall not be deemed to be 

 adulterated in the following cases: 



1. In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from 

 time to time hereafter known as articles of food under their own distinc- 

 tive names and not included in definition fourth of this section; pro- 

 vided that candies and chocolates shaU be deemed to be adulterated if 

 they contain terra alba, barytes. talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral 

 substances, or poisonous colors or flavors, or other ingredients deleter- 

 ious or detrimental to health; provided, that in case of baking powders, 

 each can or package shall be plainly labeled so as to show the name of 

 each and every ingredient contained therein. 



