PORTO RICO. 



No officer is specifically charged with the enforcement of the pure 

 drug law. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



335. False labeling or substitution by druggist. Every apothecary, druggist, 

 or person carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, or person 

 employed as clerk or salesman by such person, who, in putting any drugs or 

 medicines, or making up any prescription, or filling any order for drugs or 

 medicines, wilfully, negligently, or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts 

 an 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 quan- 

 tity of any article than that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from 

 the terms of the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in conse- 

 quence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 or if death ensues, is guilty of a felony. 



337. Fraudulent adulteration. Every person who adulterates or dilutes any 

 articles of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or 

 any article useful in compounding them, 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, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



338. Selling tainted dr">gs, etc. Every person who knowingly sells, or keeps 

 or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any article of food, drink, drug, or 

 medicine, knowing that the same has become tainted, decayed, spoiled, or other- 

 wise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten or drunk, with intent to permit the 

 same to be eaten or drunk, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Statutes and Codes, 1902, (Penal Code) p. 552-553. 



15. Penalty for felony. Except in cases where a different punishment is pre- 

 scribed by this Code every offense declared to be a felony is punishable by 

 imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years. 



16. Penalty for misdemeanor. Except in cases where a different punishment 

 is prescribed by this Code every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is pun- 

 ishable by imprisonment in jail not exceeding two years, or by a fine not ex- 

 ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both. 



Revised Statutes and Codes, 1902, (Penal Code) p. 471. 



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