APPENDIX B. 



SOME OF THE LAWS RELATING TO ADULTERATION OF SPICES AND 



CONDIMENTS, 



The following laws are the most valuable and important which have been recently 

 enacted, and are of such character as to make their enforcement possible. There are 

 a few other States having laws which are practically dead letters. 



gome portions not relating to the subject of this part of the Bulletin are omitted,* 



LEGISLATION, 



The New York State general law, of 1881, for the prevention of the adulteration of 

 food and drugs is as follows : 



SECTION 1. No person shall, within this State, manufacture, have, offer for sale, or 

 sell any article of food or drugs which is adulterated within the meaning of this act, 

 and any person violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor? 

 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars for 

 the first offense, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



2. The term "food," as used in this act, shall include every article used for food or 

 drink by man. The term l( drug," as used in this act, shall include all medicines for 

 internal and external use. 



3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act : 

 a. In the case of drugs. 



(1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Phar- 



macopo3ia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid 

 down therein, 



(2) If, when sold under or by a name not recognized, in the United States 



Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or 

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

 standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work. 



(3) If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which 



it is sold. 

 &. In the case of food or drink. 



(1) If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with itao as to re- 



duce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



(2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted 



wholly or in part for the article. 



(3) If any valuable constituen t of the article has been wholly or in part ab- 



stracted. 



(4) If it be an imitation of, or be so Id under the name of, another article. 



(5) If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased or decomposed, or putrid or 



rotten, animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not, 

 or, in te case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal. 



* I am indebted to the secretaries of the various States and Dr, Battershall for the 



material here collected, 



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