TO DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The board of pharmacy is hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemist 

 expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into the so-claimed adulteration, sub- 

 stitution or alteration, and report upon the result of his investigation ; and, if 

 said report justify such action, the board shall duly cause the prosecution of 

 the offender, as provided in this law. The latest edition of the United States 

 Pharmacopoeia is hereby adopted as the standard in determining the recognized 

 tests of identity and purity under this act. 



Laws 1901, p. 238. 



ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH DRUGS. 



8. Penalty. Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor used or 

 intended for drink, with cocculus-indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, 

 alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazil wood, cochineal, sugar 

 of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health ; and 

 whoever sells or offers or keeps for sale any such liquor so adulterated, shall 

 be confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding 

 $1,000, or both. (Revised Statutes, 1845, p. 175.) 



Revised Statutes (Hurd), 1897, p. 541. 



