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(3) If its strength or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is 

 sold or offered or exposed for sale. 



(g) Provided, that the foregoing definitions as to the adulteration of food and drugs 

 shall not apply 



(1) If any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food 

 or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an 

 article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently 

 to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug or to conceal the inferior 

 quality thereof, if such articles are distinctly labeled as a mixture, in conspicuous 

 characters, forming an inseparable part of the general label, which shall also bear 

 the name and address of the manufacturer. 



(2) If the food or drug is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in 

 force, and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent. 



(3) If the food or drug is unavoidably mixed with some extraneous matter in the 

 process of collection or preparation. 



(4) If any articles of food not injurious to the health of the person consuming the 

 same are mixed together and sold or offered for sale as a compound, and if such ar- 

 ticles are distinctly labeled as a mixture, in conspicuous characters, forming an in- 

 separable part of the general label, which shall also bear the name and address of 

 the manufacturer. 



(ft) Every agricultural fertilizer shall be deemed to be " adulterated" within the 

 meaning of this act if, when sold, offered, or exposed for sale, the chemical analysis 

 thereof shows a deficiency of more than one per cent, of any of the chemical sub- 

 stances, the percentages whereof are required to be specified in the certificate, by 

 " the fertilisers act" required to be affixed to each barrel, box, sack, or package con- 

 taining the same, or (if the agricultural fertilizer is in bulk) to be produced to the in- 

 spector ; or if it contains less than the minimum percentage of such substances re- 

 quired by the said act to be contained in such fertilizer, 48-49 V., c. 67, s. 2. 



ANALYSIS. 



3. The governor in council may appoint one or more persons possessing competent 

 medical, chemical, and microscopical knowledge as analysts of food, drugs, and agri- 

 cultural fertilizers purchased, sold, or exposed or offered for sale within such terri- 

 torial limits as are assigned to each of them respectively, and may also select from 

 among the aforesaid analysts so appointed, or may appoint, in addition thereto, a 

 chief analyst, who shall be attached to the staff of the department of inland revenue 

 at Ottawa. 



(2) No analyst shall be appointed until he has undergone an examination before a 

 special examining board appointed by the governor in council, and until he has ob- 

 tained from such board a certificate setting forth that he is duly qualified to perform 

 the duties attached to the office of analyst. 48-49 V., c. 67, s. 3; 49 V., c. 41, s. 1. 



4. The governor in council may cause such remuneration to be paid to such chief 

 analyst and to such analysts as hie deems proper, and such remuneration, whether by 

 fees, or salary, or partly in one way, and partly in the other, may be paid to them out 

 of any sums voted by Parliament for the purposes of this act. 48-49 V., c. 67, s. 4. 



5. The officers of inland revenue, the inspectors and deputy inspectors of weights 

 and measures, and the inspectors and deputy inspectors acting under " the general 

 inspection act," or any of them, shall, when required so to do by any regulation 

 made in that behalf by the minister of inland revenue, procure and submit samples 

 of food, drugs, or agricultural fertilizers suspected to be adulterated, to be analyzed 

 by the analysts appointed under this act. 48-49 V., c. 67, s. 5, 



G. The council of any city, town, county, or village may appoint one or more in- 

 spectors of food, drugs, and agricultural fertilizers; and such inspectors shall, for the 

 purposes of this act, have all the powers by this act vested in officers of inland rev- 

 enue ; and any such inspector may require any public analyst to analyze any sam- 



