

SPICES AND CONDIMENTS. 249 



214. SEC. 5. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any of the forego 

 ing sections of this act shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned in the 

 county jail not exceeding three months. $9328. 



215. SEC. 6. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of this State to 

 appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution of all complaints under this 

 act in all the courts in their respective counties. $9329. 



216. SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act 

 are hereby repealed. 9330. 



The Canadian law is as follows, in addition to which there is an elaborate act re- 

 specting the inspection of staple articles of Canadian produce: 



CHAPTEU 107. An Act respecting the adulteration of food, drugs, and agricultural fertilizers. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Com- 

 mons of Canada, enacts as follows : 



SHORT TITLE. 



1. This act may be cited as " The adulteration act." 48-49 V., c. 67, s. 1. 



INTERPRETATION. 



2. In this act, unless the context otherwise requires 



(a) The expression u food " includes every article used for food or drink by man or 

 by cattle. 



(ft) The expression " drug " includes all medicines for internal or external use for 

 man or for cattle. 



(c) The expression " agricultural fertilizer" means and includes every substance 

 imported, manufactured, prepared, or disposed of for fertilizing or manuring pur- 

 poses which is sold at more than ten dollars per ton and which contains phosphoric 

 acid or ammonia or its equivalent of nitrogen. 



(d) The expression " officer " means any officer of inland revenue or any person au- 

 thorized under this act or " Ihe fertilizers act" to procure samples of articles of food, 

 drugs, or agricultural fertilizers and to submit them for analysis. 



(e) Food shall be deemed to be "adulterated" within the meaning of this act 



(1) If any substance has been mixed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously 

 affect its quality or strength. 



(2) If any inferior or cheaper substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for 

 the article. 



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

 stracted. 



(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 or decomposed or putrid or rotten 

 animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not, or, in the case of milk 

 or butter, if it is the produce of a diseased animal or of an animal fed upon unwhole- 

 some food. 



(6) If it contains any added poisonous ingredient or any ingredient which may 

 render such an article injurious to the health of a person consuming it. 



(/) Every drug shall be deemed to be " adulterated" within the meaning of this 

 act 



Cl) If, when sold or offered or exposed for sale under or by a name recognized in 

 the British or United States pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, 

 quality, or purity laid down therein. 



(2) If, when sold or offered or exposed for sale under or by a name not recognized 

 in the British or United States pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other gen- 

 erally recognized pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica, it differs 

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



