190 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAKTMENT OF AGKICULTURE. 



Confectionery. 



In the case of confectionery : 



Mineral substances, poisonous color or flavors, other deleterious, etc., ingredi- 

 ents, liquors, etc., or narcotic drugs. 



If it contain terra alba, barj^tes, talc, chrome yellow, or other min- 

 eral substance or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient dele- 

 terious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous 

 liquor or compound or narcotic drug. 



Food. 



In the case of food : 



Injurious mixtures. * 



First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as 

 to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



Substitutes. 



Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part 

 for the article. 



Valuable constituents abstracted. 



Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly 

 or in part abstracted. 



Damage or inferiority concealed. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a 

 manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Poisonous or other deleterious ingredients added; preservatives of food products 

 for shipment, necessarily removed when products ready for consumption. 



Fifth. If it contain anj^ added poisonous or other added deleterious 

 ingredient which may render such article injurious to health: Pro- 

 vided, That when in the preparation of food products for shipment 

 they are preserved by any external application applied in such man- 

 ner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically, or by 

 maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal 

 of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the package, 

 the provisions of this Act shall be construed as applying only when 

 said products are ready for consumption. 



Filthy, etc., substances, portions of animals unfit for food, and products of 

 animals diseased or having died otherwise than by slaughter. 



Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or 

 putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal 

 unlit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product 

 of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. 



Act June 30. liWG. c. 3015. s. 7, 34 Stat. 7G9. 



Definition of term " misbranded " as used in act. 



Sec. 8, That the term '' misbranded," as used herein, shall apply 

 to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the com- 

 position of food, the package or label of whicli shall bear aiiv state- 

 ment, design, or device regarding sucli article, or the ingredients or 

 substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in 

 any particular, and to any food or drug product which is falsely 

 branded as to the State, Territory, or country in which it is manu- 

 factured or produced. 



