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of destroying or weakening its medicinal power or effect or of lessening its 

 cost ; or, 



3. Sells, furnishes or delivers or causes or permits any such falsified or 

 adulterated drug or medicinal preparation to be sold, furnished or delivered 

 for medicinal purposes, 



Is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Laws 1890, p. 306.) 



Revised Codes, 1899, p. 1457. 



7309. Adulterating food or medicines a misdemeanor. Every person who 

 adulterates or dilutes any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, strong, spiritu- 

 ous or malt liquor or wine, or any article useful in compounding either of them, 

 whether one useful for mankind or for animals, with a fraudulent intent to 

 offer the same, or cause or permit it to be offered for sale as unadulterated or 

 undiluted, and every person who fraudulently sells or keeps or offers for sale 

 the same as unadulterated or undiluted, knowing it to have been adulterated or 

 diluted, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Codes, 1899, p. 1460. 



6812. Penalty for misdemeanors. Except in cases where a different punish- 

 ment is prescribed by this code or by some existing provisions of law, every 

 offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county 

 jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or 

 by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Revised Codes, 1899, p. 1388. 



7302. False labeling, substitution, adulteration, etc., a misdemeanor. Every 

 apothecary or druggist, and every person employed as clerk or salesman by an 

 apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs 

 or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines, willfully, negligently 

 or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts any untrue label, stamp or other 

 designation of contents upon any box, bottle or other package containing any 

 drugs or medicines, or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed 

 or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that pre- 

 scribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription 

 or order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or 

 health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Codes, 1899, p. 1459. 



1. Adulteration prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, his agent 

 or servant, or while acting as agent or servant of any other person or corpora- 

 tion to manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell within this state any drugs 

 which is adulterated within the meaning of this act. 



2. " Drug " defined. The term " drug " as used in this act shall include all 

 medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, disinfectants and cosmetics. 



3. Adulteration defined. A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated : 



First. If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States 

 pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity pre- 

 scribed therein, unless the order therefor requires an article inferior to such 

 standard, or unless such difference is made known or so appears to the purchaser 

 at the time of the sale. 



Second. 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 stand- 

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