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formulae or tests of the latest edition of the " National Formulary," or of the 

 " Pharmacopoeia of the United States," or the American Homeopathic Phar- 

 macopoeia, or the American Homeopathic Dispensatory, regarding quality or 

 purity. 



On complaint being entered, the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board is 

 hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemist expert, whose duty it shall 

 be to examine into the so claimed adulteration and report upon the result of 

 his investigation, and if said report justifies such action, the board shall duly 

 cause the prosecution of the offender as provided in this law. Whoever vio- 

 lates any of the provisions of this act shall be. guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or 

 undergo an imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both. Laws 1897, p. 85. 



Brightly's Digest, 1903, p. 53. 



1. Adulteration of fruit syrups prohibited. Any person, firm, or corporate 

 body who shall, by himself, herself or themselves, or by his, her or their agents 

 or servants, manufacture, sell, ship, consign, offer for sale or expose for sale, 

 or have in possession with intent to sell, any fruit-syrup which contains for- 

 maldehyde, sulphurous acid or sulphites, boric acid or borates, salicylic acid 

 or salicylates, saccharine, dulciu, glucin, betanaphthol, abrastol, asaprol, fluor- 

 ides, fluoborates, fluosilicates or other fluorine compounds; also any coal tar 

 dyes, sulphate of copper, or any other coloring matter injurious to health, or 

 any preservatives or their compounds injurious to health, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor. 



2. Penalty. Every person, firm or corporation, and every officer, agent, serv- 

 ant or employe of such person, firm or corporation, who violates any of the 

 provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon 

 conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the proper county, shall 

 be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than sixty nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, with the costs, or to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, 

 or both, at the discretion of the court. 



3. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the Dairy and Food Commissioner 

 to enforce the provisions of this act, for which purpose he shall have the same 

 power which is given him to enforce the provisions of the act authorizing his 

 appointment. 



4. Disposition of fines. All penalties or fines which may be recovered in any 

 proceeding to enforce the provisions of this act shall be paid to the Dairy and 

 Food Commissioner, or his agent, and by him paid into the State Treasury for 

 the use of the Commonwealth. 



Laws, 1905, p. 311 and 312. 



ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH POISONS. 



47. Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to make use 

 of any active poison, or other deleterious drugs, in any quantity or quantities, in 

 the manufacture or preparation, by process of rectifying or otherwise, of any 

 intoxicating, malt or alcoholic liquors, or for any person or persons to knowingly 

 sell such poisoned or drugged liquors in any quantity or quantities ; and any per- 

 son or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Laws 

 1863, p. 389.) 



Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 1894, p. 1234. 



