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4983. Penalty. If any person adulterate for the purpose of sale any drug 

 or medicine in such manner as to lessen the efficacy or change the operation 

 of such drug or medicine, or to make it injurious to health, or sell it knowing 

 that it is thus adulterated, he shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceed- 

 ing one year, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and such adulterated 

 drugs and medicines destroyed. 



4985. Mixing, coloring and powdering of drugs and medicines. No person 

 shall, except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of 

 medicine, mix, color, stain or powder or permit any other person to mix, color, 

 stain or powder any drug or medicine with any ingredients or materials, so 

 as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug or medicine, with 

 the intent to sell the same, or shall offer for sale any such drug or medicine. 



4986. Label ing of colored and mixed goods. No person shall mix, color, stain 

 or powder any article of food, drink or medicine, or any article which enters 

 into the composition of food, drink or medicine, with any other ingredient or 

 material, whether injurious to health or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, 

 or sell or offer for sale the same, or order or permit any other person to sell or 

 offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained or powdered, unless the same 

 be so manufactured, used or sold or offered for sale, under its true and appro- 

 priate name, and notice that the same is mixed or impure is marked, printed 

 or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or vessel containing the same, so 

 as to be and remain at all time readily visible, or unless the person purchasing 

 the same is fully informed by the seller of the true names of the ingredients 

 (if other than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such articles 

 at the time of making the sale thereof or offering to sell the same ; but nothing 

 in this section shall prevent the use of harmless coloring material used in color- 

 ing butter and cheese. 



4988. Penalty. Any person violating any provision of the four preceding sec- 

 tions shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty 

 dollars; for the second offense, not less than twenty-five nor more than one 

 hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than thirty 

 days ; for the third or any subsequent offense, not less than five hundred nor 

 more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less 

 than one nor more than five years. 



Code, 1897, p. 1950 et seq. 



