168 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



poison under any fraudulent name, direction or pretense, or to adulterate any 

 drug, chemical, medicine, or poison so used or sold, or to sell or offer for sale 

 any adulterated or deteriorated drug, chemical, medicine, or poison. Any drug, 

 chemical, medicine, or poison shall be held to be adulterated or deteriorated 

 within the meaning of this Act if it differs from the standard of quality or 

 purity given in the United States Pharmacopeia. Any person violating the pro- 

 visions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more 

 than five hundred dollars. 



Acts of the Philippine Commission, 1903, vol. 8, p. 341. 



