'248 FOODS AND FOOD ADULTERANTS. 



The laws of Michigan are as follows : 



ADULTERATION OF FOODS, DRINKS, DRUGS, OR MEDICINES, 



208. (7727.) SEC. 2. If any person shall fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose 

 of sale, any substance intended for food, or any wine, spirits, malt liquor, or other 

 liquor intended for drinking, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county 

 jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, and the 

 article so adulterated shall be forfeited and destroyed. $9317. 



209. (7728.) SEC. 3. If any person shall fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose 

 of sale, any drug or medicine, in such manner as to render the same injurious to 

 health, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one 

 year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars, and such adulterated drugs and 

 medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed. $9318. 



ADULTERATION OF FOODS, DRINKS, AND MEDICINES, AND SALE THEREOF WHEN 



ADULTERATED. 



Act No. 254, laws of 3881, entitled "An Act to prevent and punish the adulteration of articles of 

 food, drink, and medicine, and the sale thereof when adulterated/' 



210. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That no person shall 

 mix, color, stain, or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, color, stain, 

 or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the ar- 

 ticle injurious to health, with the intent that the same may be sold ; and no person 

 shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any such article so mixed, colored, stained, or 

 powdered. 9324. 



211. SEC. 2. No person shall, except for the purpose of compounding in the nec- 

 essary preparation of medicine, mix, color, stain, or powder, or order or permit any 

 other person to mix, color, stain, or powder, any drug or medicine with any in- 

 gredient or ingredients or materials so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency 

 of such drug or medicine, with intent to sell the same, or shall sell or offer for sale 

 any such drug or medicine so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered. $9325. 



212. SEC. 3. No person shall mix, color, stain, or powder any article of food, 

 drink, or medicine, or any article which enters into the composition of food, drink, 

 or medicine, with any other ingredient or material, whether injurious to health or 

 not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell or offer the same for sale, or order or 

 permit any other person to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained, 

 and powdered, unless the same be so manufactured, used, or sold, or offered for sale 

 under its true and appropriate name, and notice that the same is mixed or impure is 

 marked, printed, or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel, or vessel containing the 

 same, so as to be and remain at all times readily visible, or unless the person pur- 

 chasing the same is fully informed by the seller of the true name and ingredients (if 

 other than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such article of food, 

 drink, or medicine at the time of making sale thereof or offering to sell the same. 

 $9326. 



213. SEC. 4. No person shall mix any glucose or grape sugar with syrup, honey, 

 or sugar, intended for human food, or any oleomargarine, suine, beef fat, lard, or any 

 other foreign substance, with any butter or cheese intended for human food, or shall 

 mix or mingle any glucose or grape sugar or oleomargarine with any article of food, 

 without distinctly marking, stamping, or labeling the article, or the package contain, 

 ing the same, with the true and appropriate name of such article, and the percentage 

 in which glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine, or suine, enter into its composition; 

 nor shall any person sell, or offer for sale, or order or permit to be sold, or offered for 

 sale, any such food into the composition of which glucose, or grape sugar, or oleo- 

 margarine, or suine lias entered, without at the same time informing the buyer of the 

 fact, and the proportions in which such glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine, or 

 suine has entered into its composition. $9327. 



