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medicine, or is the subject of a patent, and is supplied in the state required of the 

 patent; (3) where the food or drug is compounded as allowed by the Act; (4) 

 \\hrrc the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in 

 the process of collection or preparation. 



Compound Articles of Food and Compounded Drugs. No person shall sell 

 any compound article of food or compounded drug which is not composed of 

 ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser. Penalty 20. 



Protection from Offences by giving Label. A person may sell a mixed 

 article if he affixes to the article a label to that effect. 



Abstraction of Part of an Article of Food before Sale. No person may 

 abstract from any article of food intended for sale any part of it so as to affect 

 injuriously its quality, substance or nature, or shall sell such without disclosing 

 its nature. Penalty 20. 



Other sections of the Act provide for the appointment of analysts, the 

 power to purchase food for the purpose of analysis and for proceedings against 

 offenders, &c. 



SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1899. 



This Act amends the previous Act and takes Precautions against the Importa- 

 tion of Agricultural and other Produce Insufficiently Marked. Margarine or 

 margarine-cheese must be conspicuously marked as such. Adulterated or im- 

 poverished butter, or milk or cream must be so marked. Condensed, separated 

 or skimmed milk must be labelled as such. Any adulterated or impoverished 

 food must be marked with a name or description indicating that the article has 

 been so treated. An importer failing to comply with these requirements is 

 liable to a fine of 20 for the first offence. 



An article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated or impoverished if 

 it has been mixed with any other substance, or if any part of it has been 

 abstracted, so as in either case to affect injuriously its quality, substance or 

 nature. An article of food is not considered to be adulterated if there is only 

 added preservative or colouring matter of such a nature and in such quantity 

 as not to render the article injurious to health. 



FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1906. 



This is an Act to amend the law with respect to the Sale of Agricultural 

 Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs. 



Persons who sell fertilisers prepared by artificial process in the United 

 Kingdom or imported from abroad must give an invoice stating the name of 

 the article and the respective percentages (if any) of nitrogen, soluble phosphates, 

 insoluble phosphates and potash contained in it; the invoice shall act as a 

 warranty that the percentages in the article shall not differ from those stated 

 beyond the prescribed limits of error. 



A person who sells as food for cattle or poultry an article which has been 

 artificially prepared must state on an invoice the name of the article and whether 

 it has been prepared from one substance or seed or more than one substance or 

 seed, and in the case of being artificially prepared, otherwise than being mixed, 

 broken, ground or chopped, what are the respective percentages (if any) of 

 oil and albuminoids; the invoice shall act as a warranty except as regards 

 percentages that these do not differ beyond the prescribed limits of error. 



When an article is sold as food for poultry or cattle under a name or 

 description implying that it is prepared from any particular substance or sub- 

 stances, or the product of any particular seed or seeds, and without any indication 

 that it is mixed or compounded with any other substance or seed, there shall be 

 an implied warranty that it is pure and contains only the substances named. 



On the sale of any article for use as food for cattle or poultry there shall 

 be implied a warranty that it is suitable for such use. 



If a soil fertiliser or food for cattle or poultry is mixed at the request of the 

 purchaser, it is sufficient if the invoice contains a statement of the percentages 



