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tion: Provided, That no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia or 

 National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if 

 the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated upon the bottle, 

 box, or other container thereof although the standard may differ from that 

 determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or 

 National Formulary. 



Second. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard or quality 

 under which it is sold. 



In the case of confectionery: 



If it contain terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral sub- 

 stance or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detri- 

 mental to health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous liquor, or compound or 

 narcotic drug. 



In the case of food : 



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

 or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



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

 article. 



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

 abstracted. 



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

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious in- 

 gredient which may render such article injurious to health : Provided, That 

 when in the preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by 

 any external application applied in such manner that the preservative is neces- 

 sarily 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. 



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 unfit 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. 



SEC. 8. That the term " misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, 

 or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the 

 package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding 

 such 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. 



That for the purposes of this act an article shall also be deemed to be mis- 

 branded : 



In case of drugs: 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another 

 article. 



Second. If the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been 

 removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such 

 package, or if the package fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity 

 or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta 

 eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any 

 derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein. 



In the case of food : 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name 

 of another article. 



Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, 

 or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 

 package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and 

 other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if it fail to bear a 

 statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphine, opium, 

 cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, canabis indica, chloral 

 hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any of such sub- 

 stances contained therein. 



Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight 

 or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the 

 package 



