FOODS AND FOOD ADULTE&ANT*. 



3. Under the direction of the health officer, one of the inspectors shall, for the 

 identification of samples, affix a number to each sample of food or drugs obtained by 

 him, beginning with number one, and taking every alternate or odd number there- 

 after, without limit; and the other inspector shall use and affix each alternate or 

 even number, beginning with number two, and following such form of numbering, 

 without limit, also, as far as may be directed. Under 110 circumstances shall an in- 

 spector convey any information to an analyst as to the source from which any sample 

 was obtained. 



4. The inspectors shall keep records of each sample, each record to include the 

 following items : 



(a) The inspector's number. 



(6) The date of purchase or receipt of sample, 



(c) The character of the sample. 



(d) The name of the vender. 



(<;) The name of the city or town and street and number where the sample is ob- 

 tained, and in the case of a licensed milk peddler, the number of his license. 



(/) As far as possible, the names of manufacturers, producers, or wholesalers, with 

 marks, brands, or labels stamped or printed upon goods. 



5. It shall be the duty of the analysts so appointed to determine, under the direc- 

 tion of the health officer, by proper examination and analysis, whether articles of 

 food and drugs, manufactured for sale, offered for sale, or sold within this Common- 

 wealth, are adulterated within the meaning of chapter 263 of the acts and resolves 

 passed by the general court of Massachusetts in 1882, and all acts amendatory thereof, 

 adulteration being defined as follows, viz : 



In the case of drugs, (1) If sold under or by a name recognized in the United States 

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

 therein, unless the order calls for an article inferior to such standard, 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 Pharmacpceiia, 

 but which is found in some other pharmacopoaia or 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 inferior 

 or cheaper substance or substances have boon 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 con- 

 sists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, or rotten animal or. vegeta- 

 ble substance, whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk, if it is the prod- 

 uce of a diseased animal. (6) If it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, where- 

 by damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear of better or of greater value than it 

 really is. (7) If it contains any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which 

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



6. It shall also be the duty of the analysts to receive such specimens of food and 

 drugs for analysis as may be delivered to them by the health officer, or by the inspect- 

 ors, and to examine the same. To avoid, as far as possible, all suggestion or danger 

 of specimens having been tampered with, each analyst shall keep each specimen in 

 his possession in a suitable and secure place, labeled in such a manner as to prevent 

 any person from having access to the same, without the knowledge and presence of 

 the analyst. 



Analyses of perishable articles should bo made promptly after they are received. 



7. An analyst shall give no information, under any circumstances, regarding the 

 result of any analysis to any person except to the health officer of the board?* prior to 

 any trial in court in reference to such analysis. 



