74 DRUG LEGISLATION IK THE UNITED STATES. 



The term drug shall be deemed to include all medicines for internal or external 

 use, antiseptics, disinfectants and cosmetics. An article shall be deemed to 

 be adulterated within the meaning of this section : 



A. In case of drugs. (1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized by 

 the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, 

 quality or purity laid down therein, unless the order call for an article inferior 

 to such standard, or unless such difference be made known or so appear to the 

 purchaser at the time of such sale. (2) If, when sold under or by a name not 

 recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some 

 other pharmacopoeia, or other standard work on materia medica, it differ mate- 

 rially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work. 

 (3) If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which 

 it is sold. 



B. * * * no prosecutions shall at any time be maintained hereunder con- 

 cerning any drug, the standard of strength of purity whereof has been raised 

 since the issue of the last edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia, unless 

 and until such change of standard shall have been published throughout the 

 state. It shall be the duty of the state board of health to inforce the laws of 

 the state governing food and drug adulteration, including the provisions of this 

 section ; and the state health officer shall be state inspector of foods and drugs. 

 The state board of health shall take cognizance of the interests of the public 

 health relating to the sale of drugs and foods and the adulteration of the same, 

 and shall make all necessary investigation and inquiries in reference thereto; 

 and for these purposes the state, county, city and town health officers shall be 

 food and drug inspectors, subordinate to the state board of health. The state 

 board of health shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to facilitate the 

 enforcement of the provisions of this section, and shall prepare rules declaring 

 the proper methods of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food. 

 Every person offering or exposing for sale or delivery to a purchaser any drug 

 or article of food included in the provisions of this section, shall furnish to any 

 analyst or other officer or agent named herein or appointed hereunder, who 

 shall apply to him for the purpose and shall tender to him the value of the 

 same, a sample sufficient for the purpose of the analysis of any such drug or 

 article of food which is in his possession. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in 

 any way interferes with any inspector, analyst or other officer named herein 

 or appointed hereunder, in the performance of his duties, and whoever violates 

 any of the provisions of this section, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceed- 

 ing one hundred dollars. 



Acts, 1905, p. 710. 



ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH POISONS. 



552. Penalty. Whoever uses any poison in the manufacture or preparation 

 of any intoxicating liquor, or knowingly sells, or offers for sale, in any 

 quantity, any intoxicating liquor so manufactured or prepared, shall, on 

 conviction, be imprisoned in the State prison not less than one year nor more 

 than seven years, and fined not exceeding five hundred dollars. 



Acts, 1905, p. 715. 



