OHIO. 151 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



1. Adulteration prohibited. No person shall, within this state, manufacture 

 for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article of food 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. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated 

 within the meaning of this act : 



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

 in the seventh decennial revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs 

 from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein; (2) if, 

 when sold under or by a name not recognized in the seventh decennial revision 

 of the United States Pharmacopoeia but which is found in some other pharma- 

 copeia, or other standard work on meteria niedica, it differs materially from 

 the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work; (3) if, its 

 strength, quality or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is 

 sold. * * * 



4. Sample may be demanded for analysis. Every person manufacturing, offer- 

 ing or exposing for sale, or delivering to a purchaser, any drug or article of 

 food included in the provisions of this act, shall furnish to any person interested, 

 or demanding the same, who shall apply to him for the purpose, and shall ten- 

 der him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such 

 drug or article of food which is in his possession. 



5. Penalties. Whoever refuses to comply, upon demand, with the require- 

 ments of section four, and whoever violates any of the provisions of this act, 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceed- 

 ing one hundred dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned not 

 exceeding one hundred nor less than thirty days, or both. And any person 

 found guilty of manufacturing, offering for sale or selling an adulterated arti- 

 cle of food or drug under the provisions of this act, shall be adjudged to pay, in 

 addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided for, all necessary costs and ex- 

 penses incurred in inspecting and analyzing such adulterated articles of which 

 said person may have been found guilty of manufacturing, selling or offering 

 for sale. Laws 1884, P- 67. 



Bates' Annotated Statutes, 1897, p. 2228 ; as amended, Laws, 1904, p. 116. 



10626. Depositing poison in thoroughfares. Whoever leaves or deposits any 

 poison, or any substance containing poison, in any common, street, alley, lane, 

 or thoroughfare of any kind, or any yard or inclosure other than the yard or 

 inclosure occupied by such -person, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less 

 than five dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty nor less than five days, or 

 both, and shall be liable to the person injured for all damages sustained 

 thereby. 



Laning's Revised Statutes, 1905, p. 2101. 



ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH POISONS. 



7082. Penalty. Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any spirituous, 

 alcoholic or malt liquors used or intended for drink, or medical or mechanical 

 purposes, with cocculus-indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, capsl- 



So in Laws. 



