192 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAKTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



food which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious in- 

 gredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded in 

 the following cases: 



Mixtures or compounds under distinctive names. 



First. In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now 

 or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food, under their 

 own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or offered for sale 

 under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accom- 

 panied on the same label or brand with a statement of the place where 

 said article has been manufactured or produced. 



Articles labeled, branded, etc., as compounds, imitations, or blends; construction 

 of term "blend"; exemption from disclosure of trade formulas of pro- 

 prietary foods. 



Second. In the case of articles labeled, branded, or tagged so as to 

 plainly indicate that thev are compounds, imitations, or blends, and 

 the word " compound," imitation," or " blend," as the case may be, 

 is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale: Pro- 

 vided^ That the term blend as used herein shall be construed to mean 

 a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless coloring or 

 flavoring ingredients used for the purpose or coloring and flavoring 

 only: And 'provided further^ That nothing in this Act shall be con- 

 strued as requiring or compelling proprietors or manufacturers of 

 proprietary roods which contain no unwholesome added ingredient 

 to disclose their trade formulas, except in so far as the provisions of 

 this Act may require to secure freedom from adulteration or mis- 

 branding. 



Act June 30, 190G. c. r>Oir». s. 8, 34 Stat. 770. as nmended by "An act 

 to amend section eiglit of the food and drugs act approved June thirtieth, 

 nineteen hundred and six." act August 23, 1912, c. 352, 37 Stat. 416. The 

 section is amended by the act cited, to read as above, by adding to that 

 part defining what shall be misbranding in the case of drugs, the third 

 paragraph, reliiting to false and fraudulent statements, etc., aa to curative 

 or therapeutic properties. 



Guaranty signed by wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, etc., as protection to 

 dealer from prosecution iinder provisions of act. 



Skc. 9. That no dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions 

 of this Act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the whole- 

 saler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party residing in the United 

 States, from whom he purchases such articles, to the effect that the 

 same is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this 

 Act, designating it. Said guaranty, to afford protection, shall con- 

 tain the name and address of the party or parties making the sale of 

 such articles to such dealer, and in such case said party or parties 

 shall })e amenable to the prosecutions, fines, and other i)enalties which 

 would attach, in due course, to the dealer under tho provisions of 

 this Act. 



Act June .30, 1906. c. 3915, 8. 9, 34 Stat. 771. 



Seizure of articles adulterated or misbranded within act, in interstate or foreign 

 commerce, etc., for condemnation; disposition of articles condemned and of 

 proceeds thereof; delivery to owner on bond, etc.; proceedings for seizure 

 and condemnation. 



Skc. 10. That any article of food, drug, or liquor that is adulter- 

 ated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act. and is being 



