80 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



portation into the United States, the exportation from the 

 United States, the introduction into interstate commerce, 

 and the manufacture and sale in the District of Columbia 

 and the Territories of misbranded and adulterated foods and 

 , drugs. In 1912, the so-called Shirley amendment^' to the 

 act was passed prohibiting false and misleading statements 

 as to the curative or therapeutic eflfects of medicines. On 

 March 3, 1913, the act was further amended so as to require 

 articles of food in package form to bear a statement or label 

 showing the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, 

 measure or numerical count." 



Prior to June, 191 3, domestic meats and meat products 

 which had been prepared under federal inspection were 

 specifically exempted from the operation of the food and 

 drugs act by the rules and regulations for the enforcement 

 of that act. Since this date, however, these articles have 

 been subjected to the same treatment as other food irrespec- 

 tive of any prior inspection. 



Section nine provides that no dealer shall be prosecuted 

 for violations of the act if he can establish a guaranty signed 

 by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party re- 

 siding in the United States, from whom he purchased the 

 articles in question, to the effect that the same are not 

 adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the act, 

 designating it. In such cases the party or parties making 

 the guaranty shall be amenable to the prosecutions, fines, and 

 other penalties which would otherwise attach to the dealer.^* 



"37 Stat. L. 416. 



18.^7 Stat. L. 732. 



^* Repulation 9 of the Rules and Regulations for the enforcement 

 of the fooil and drugs act, June 30, 1906, 34 Stat. 768, is hereby 

 amended, effective May i, 1915, so as to read as follows: 



"(a) It having been determined that the legends 'Guaranteed 

 under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906,' and ' Guaranteed by 

 (name of guarantor), under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 

 1906/ borne on tlie labels or packages of food and drugs, accom- 

 panied by serial numbers given by the Secretary of Agriculture, are 

 each misleading and deceptive, in that the public is induced by such 

 legends and serial numbers to believe tliat the articles to which they 

 relate have been examined and approved by the Government and 

 that the Government guarantees that they comply with the law, the 



