NEW JERSEY. 



GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 



SEC. 3. Adulteration defined. For the purposes of this act an article shall be 

 deemed to be adulterated * * * 



In the case of confectionery: 



It it contains terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral sub- 

 stance, or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detri- 

 mental ti health, in- any vinous, malt or spirituous liquor or compound or 

 nan-otic drug. 



In the case of food: 



First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it so as to reduce or 

 lower or injuriously afl'ect its quality or strength. 



ml. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the 

 article. 



Third. If any \aluable eonstituent of the article has been wholly or in part 

 abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner 

 whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 



Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient 

 which may n-nder such article injurious to health; i>r<>ridcd, that when in the 

 preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by any external 

 application applied in such manner that t be preservative is necessarily removed 

 HUM hanically. or by maceration In water, or otherwise, and directions for the 

 ivnio\;il of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the package, 

 the provisions of this act shall be construed as applying only when said products 

 are ready for consumption. 



Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid 



animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, 



whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or 



one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. As amended April 16, 1908, 



. .fox. i>i>. ii.".> -630. Kcc Hul. 112, pt. 2, pp. 7-8. 



Sn . I. Misbranding dfind. The term " misbranded," as used herein, shall 

 apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composi- 

 tion of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or 

 de\ ice regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, 

 which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug 

 product which is falsely branded as to the State, Territory or country in which 

 it is manufactured or produced. 



r the purposes of this act an article shall also be deemed to be mis- 

 bra ruled * * * 



In the case of food : 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name 

 of another article. 



Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, 

 or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package 

 as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other con- 



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