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tary or pharmaceutical preparations for use in the manufacture of such prepa- 

 rations nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions, nor to 

 morphine when sold in the pill or tablet form. 



Public Acts, 1905, p. 521. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



16. Quality prescribed. Unless otherwise prescribed for, or specified by the 

 customer, all pharmaceutical preparations, sold or dispensed in a pharmacy, 

 dispensary, store or place, shall be of the standard strength, quality and purity 

 established by the latest edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia. 



17. Proprietor responsible for quality. Every proprietor of a wholesale or 

 retail drug store, pharmacy, or other place where drugs, medicines, or chemicals 

 are compounded, dispensed or sold, shall be held responsible for the quality and 

 strength of all drugs, chemicals or medicines sold or dispensed by him, except 

 those articles or preparations known as patent or proprietary medicines. 



Public Acts, 11)05, p. 523. 



5313. Adulteration prohibited; penalty. No person shall add to or remove 

 from any drug, medicine, chemical, pharmaceutical preparation, any ingredient 

 or material for the purpose of adulteration or substitution, which shall deteri- 

 orate the quality, commercial value or medicinal effect, or which shall alter the 

 nature or composition of such drug, medicine, chemical, or pharmaceutical 

 preparation, so that it will not correspond to the recognized tests of identity 

 or purity. Any person who shall thus willfully adulterate or alter, or cause to 

 be adulterated or altered, or shall sell or offer for sale, any such drug, medicine, 

 chemical, or pharmaceutical preparation, or any person who shall substitute, or 

 cause to be substituted, one material for another, with the intention to defraud 

 or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be liable to 

 prosecution under this act. If convicted he shall be liable to all the costs of the 

 action, and for the first offense be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars 

 nor more than one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offense, a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five dollnrs nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars. 

 On complaint being entered the board of pharmacy is hereby empowered to 

 employ an analyst or chemist, whose duty it shall be to examine into the so- 

 called adulteration, substitution, or alteration and report upon the result of 

 his investigation; and if said report shall be deemed to justify such action the 

 board shall duly cause the prosecution of the offender, as provided in this act. 

 (Laws 1885, p. 1ST.) 



Compiled Laws, 1897, vol. 2, p. 1G70. 



11427. Mixing or coloring drugs so as to affect quality. No person shall, 

 except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of medi- 

 cine, mix, color, stain or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, 

 color, stain or powder any drug or medicine with any ingredient or ingredients 

 or materials so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug or 

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

 drug or medicine so mixed, colored, stained or powdered. 



11428. Adulterated articles labeled to show true character. No person shall 

 mix, color, stain or powder any article of food, drink, or medicine, or tiny 

 article which enters into the composition of food, drink, or medicine, with any 



