WISCONSIN. 205 



4608g\ Label on vaccine virus, etc.; penalty. Any person who or corporation 

 which shall sell or gratuitously distribute any vaccine virus, therapeutical 

 serum, modified toxins or similar products with the intention that they shall 

 be used in the prophylaxis or treatment of contagious disease, without having 

 his or its name stamped in plain English letters thereon or on the package or 

 bottle containing the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 

 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars 

 nor more than one hundred dollars. (Laws 1897, p. 262.) 



Statutes, 1898, vol. 2, p. 2794. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



4600. Penalty for sale; "drug" defined. Any person who shall, by himself, 

 his servant or agent or as the servant or agent of any other person, sell, ex- 

 change, deliver or have in his possession with intent to sell, exchange, offer 

 for sale or exchange any drug or article of food which is adulterated, shall 

 be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars 

 or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than 

 four months. The term " drug," as used in this section, shall include all 

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

 * * * 



4601. Definition of adulteration. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated 

 within the meaning of the preceding section : 



1. In the case of drugs : 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 laid down in the latest current edition thereof; second, if, 

 when sold under or by a name not recognized in said pharmacopoeia, but which 

 is found in the pharmacopoeia of some other country, the national formulary 

 or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the 

 standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in the latest current edition 

 of such work ; third, if its strength, quality or purity falls below the professed 

 standard under which it is sold. * * * Laws 1897. p. 275-276. 



Statutes, 1898, vol. 2, p. 2783-2784. 



1410a. Duties of dairy commissioner in enforcing the laiv. It shall be the 

 duty of the commissioner to enforce the laws regarding the production, manu- 

 facture and sale of dairy products, the adulteration of any article of food or 

 drink or of any drug, and personally or by his assistants to inspect any milk, 

 butter, cheese, lard, sirup, coffee, tea or other article of food or drink or drug 

 made or offered for sale within the state which he may suspect or have reason 

 to believe to be impure, unhealthful, adulterated or counterfeit, and to prose- 

 cute or cause to be prosecuted any person, firm or corporation engaged in the 

 manufacture or sale of any adulterated or counterfeit article or articles of 

 food or drink or drug in violation of law. The district attorney of the county 

 in which a violation of any such law has occurred shall, when called upon by 

 the commissioner or either of his assistants to do so, give all the aid he can 

 to secure the execution of the law and shall prosecute cases arising under 

 the provisions of this chapter or other provisions of these statutes relating to 

 the adulteration of food, drinks and drugs and their sale. Such commissioner 

 shall have power to appoint, with the approval of the governor, special counsel 

 to prosecute or assist in the prosecution of any case arising under the provi- 

 sions of these statutes imposing a penalty for adulterating dairy products or 



