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Fifth. If the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, de- 

 sign, or device regarding the ingredients or the substances contained therein, 

 which statement, design <>r device shall be false or misleading in any particular. 

 Provided, That articles of liquor which do not contain any added poisonous or 

 deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded 

 within the provisions of this act, in the case of articles labeled, branded or 

 tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations, or blends, 

 and tlu- word "compound," "imitation," or "blend," as the case may be, is 

 plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale. Provided, That 

 the term blend as used herein shall be construed to mean a mixture of like 

 i net's, not excluding harmless coloring and flavoring ingredients used for 

 the purpose of coloring and flavoring only. 



4. 1 '///'/ ration defined. For the purpose of this act, an article of food 

 shall !> .1. -fined to be adulterated: 



?' any substance or substances be mixed or packed with it so as to 

 reduce, lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 



ond. If any substance be substituted in whole or in part for the article. 

 Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part 

 ractod; or if the product is below that standard of quality represented to 

 tin- purchaser or consumer. 



:rth. If it Is mixed, colored, coated, polished, powdered, or stained 

 whereby damage Is concealed, or If it Is made to appear better or of greater 

 value than iMs, or if it is colored or flavored in imitation of the genuine color 

 or t!avnr of another substance of a previously established name. 



th. If it contains added poisonous ingredient which may render such 

 article injurious to health, or if it contains any antiseptic or preservative which 

 may render rocb article injurious to health, or any other antiseptic or pre- 

 servathe 001 evident .: n. .t plainly v.-n.-d on the main label of the package. 



ih. If It consists of or is manufactured from in whole or in part of a 

 diseased, contaminated, filthy or decomposed substainv. either animal or vege- 

 unflt for food, or an animal or vegetable substance produced, stored, 

 t in a condition that would render the article diseased, con- 

 Kited or unwholesome. ,, r }f j t j s ;1MV j,., r t the product of a diseased animal, 

 or I ! t of an animal that has died otherwise than by slaughter, or that 



l upon the offal from a slaughterhouse, or if*lt is the milk from an 

 animal fed upon a substance unfit for food for dairy animals or from an animal 

 i a filthy or a contaminated stable or in surroundings that 

 :he milk contaminated. Provided, That any article of food which 

 may be adulterated and not misbranded within the meaning of this act, and 

 h does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredient and 

 which Is not otherwise adulterated within the meaning of paragraphs four, 

 the and Bll of wvtion four of this act, or which does not contain any filler or 

 Ingredient which debases without adding food value, can be manufactured or 

 sold, if the same be labeled, branded or tagged so as to show the exact charac- 

 ter then*.. f. And all such labels and all labeling of packages provided for in 

 any provisions of this act shall be on the main label of each package and in 

 such position and character of type and terms as will be plainly seen, read and 

 understood by the purchaser or consumer. Provided further, That nothing in 

 this act shall be construed as requiring or compelling the proprietors, manu- 

 'irers or sellers of proprietary foods which contain no unwholesome sub- 

 es or ingredients to disclose their trade formulas except in so far as the 

 provisions of this (act) require to secure freedom from adulteration, imita- 



So in Statutes. 



