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purity laid down therein, unless the order calls for an article inferior to such stand- 

 ard, or unless such difference is made known or so appears to the purchaser at the 

 time of such sale ; (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 falls below 

 the professed standard under which it is sold. 



(&) In the case of food. (1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it 

 so as to reduce, or lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength ; (2) if any in- 

 ferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for 

 it; (3) if any valuable constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted from it ; (4) 

 if it is an imitation of or is sold under the name of another article ; (5) if it consists 

 wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, or rotten animal or vegetable 

 substance, whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the produce of 

 a diseased animal; (6) if it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby dam- 

 age is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; 

 (7) if it contains any added or poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may 

 render it injurious to the health of a person consuming it. 



4. The provisions t>f this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized 

 as ordinary articles of food or drinks, provided that the same are not injurious to 

 health and are distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds. And no prosecutions 

 shall at any time be maintained under the said act concerning any drug the standard 

 of strength or purity whereof has been raised since the issue of the last edition of the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia, unless and until such change of standard has been 

 published throughout the Commonwealth. 



5. The State board of health, lunacy, and charity shall take cognizance of the in- 

 terests of the public health relating to the sale of drugs and food and the adulteration 

 of the same, and shall make all necessary investigations and inquiries in reference 

 thereto, and for these purposes may appoint inspectors, analysts, and chemists, who 

 shall be subject to its supervision and removal. 



Within thirty days after the passage of this act the said board shall adopt such 

 measures as it may deem necessary to facilitate the enforcement hereof, and shall 

 prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper methods of collecting and 

 examining drugs and articles of food. Said board may expend annually an amount 

 not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 

 this act : Provided, however. That not less than three-fifths of the said amount shall be 

 annually expended for the enforcement of the laws against the adulteration of milk 

 and milk products. 



6. Every person offering or exposing for sale, or delivering to a purchaser, any 

 drug or article of food included in the provisions of this act, shall furnish to any 

 analyst or other officer or agent appointed hereuuder, who shall apply to him for the 

 purpose and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the pur- 

 pose of the analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his possession. 



7. Whoever hinders, obstructs, or in any way interferes with any inspector, analyst, 

 or other officer appointed hereunder, in the performance of his duty, and whoever 

 violates any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 

 fifty dollars for the first offense, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each sub- 

 sequent offense. 



8. The State board of health, lunacy, and charity shall report annually to the 

 legislature the number of prosecutions made under said chapter, and an itemized 

 account of all money expended in carrying out the provisions thereof. 



9. An inspector appointed under the provisions of said chapter two hundred and 

 sixty-three of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two shall have the 

 same powers and authority conferred upon a city or town inspector by section two 

 of chapter fifty-seven of the public statutes.. 



