56 FOOD LEGISLATION, YE\B ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



The said commission, out of the appropriation hereinafter provided, may 

 employ and fix the compensation of other and additional clerical and profes- 

 sional assistants. 



SEC. 7. Inspection and prosecution. Said pure food commission is hereby 

 given full jurisdiction over the regulation and control of the manufacture and 

 sale of all foods, drugs and medicines and dairy products, and shall be author- 

 ized and empowered to make inspections concerning the purity of the same and 

 to bring prosecutions for violations as provided herein in the case of foods, 

 drugs ami dairy products, and shall exercise the necessary police authority in 

 the enforcement of this Act for the preservation of the public health. 



SEC. S. .\<Ui11cration and misbrandr-ig prohibited. The manufacture, produc- 

 tion, preparation, compounding, packing, selling, offering or keeping for sale 

 within the State of Oklahoma, or the introduction into the State from any other 

 State or Territory, or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country of 

 any article of food or dairy product which is adulterated, mislabeled or mis- 

 branded within the meaning of this Act is hereby prohibited. 



Any person, firm, company or corporation who shall import or receive from 

 any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign 

 country, or who having so received, shall deliver, for pay or otherwise, or offer 

 to deliver to any other person any article of food or dairy product mislabeled 

 or misbranded within the meaning of this Act, or any person, firm or corporation 

 who shall manufacture or produce, prepare, compound, pack or sell or offer or 

 keep for sale in the State of Oklahoma any such adulterated, mislabeled or mis- 

 branded food or dairy product shall be guilty of a misdemeanor : Provided, that 

 no article of food or dairy product shall be deemed adulterated, mislabeled or 

 misbrauded within the provisions of this Act, where prepared for export beyond 

 the jurisdiction of the United States and prepared or packed according to the 

 specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, when no substance is used 

 in the preparation or packing thereof in conflict with the laws of the foreign 

 country to which said article is intended to be shipped. 



SEC. 9. Term " person " defined. The word person, as used in this Act, shall 

 be construed to impart the singular and the plural, as the case may demand, 

 and shall include corporations, companies, societies and associations. When 

 construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission or failure 

 of any officer, agent or other person acting for or employed by any corporation, 

 company, society or association, within the scope of employment of his office, 

 shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission or failure of such cor- 

 poration, company, society or association, as well as that of the person. 



SEC. 10. " Food " and " dairy products " defined. The term " food," as used 

 in this Act, shall include all articles of food, drink, liquor, beverage, confec- 

 tionery or condiment used by man or other animal, whether simple, mixed or 

 compound. The term " dairy product," as used in this Act, shall include milk, 

 cream, butter, cheese, skimmed milk, buttermilk or any modification of the fore- 

 going materials or compounds containing one or more of same and all products 

 derived from milk. 



11. Food standards. The standard of purity of foods shall be that 

 proclaimed by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture of the United 

 States. 



28. Food adulteration defined. Food shall be deemed to be adulter- 

 ated within the meaning of this Act in any of the following cases : 



First: If any substance has been mixed or packed with the food so as to 

 reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality, purity, strength or food value. 



Second: If any substance has been substitued wholly or in part for the 

 article of food. 



