August 10, 1906.] 



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Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or 

 other added deleterious ingredient which may 

 render such article injurious to health: Pro- 

 vided, That when in the preparation of food 

 products for shipment they are preserved by 

 any external application applied in such man- 

 ner that the preservative is necessarily re- 

 moved mechanically, or by maceration in 

 water, or otherwise, and directions for the re- 

 moval 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 consiunption. 



Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of 

 a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vege- 

 table 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. 



Sec. 8. That 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 device re- 

 garding such article, or the ingredients or sub- 

 stances 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. 



That for the purposes of this act an article 

 shall also be deemed to be misbranded: 



In case of drugs: 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered for 

 sale under the name of another aiticle. 



Second. If the contents of the package as 

 originally put up shall have been removed, in 

 whole or in part, and other contents shall have 

 been placed in such package, or if the package 

 fail to bear a statement on the label of the 

 quantity or proportion of any alcohol, mor- 

 phin, opium, coeain, heroin, alpha or beta 

 eucain, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral 

 hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivative or 

 preparation of any such substances contained 

 therein. 



In the case of food: 



First. If it be an imitation of or offered 



for sale under the distinctive name of another 

 article. 



Second. K 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 contents shall have been placed in 

 such package, or if it fail to bear a statement 

 on the label of the quantity or proportion of 

 any morphin, opium, coeain, heroin, alpha or 

 beta eucain, chloroform, cannabis indica, 

 chloral hydrate, or acetanilid, or any deriva- 

 tive or preparation of any such substances 

 contained therein. 



Third. If in package form and the contents 

 are stated in terms of weight or measure, they 

 are not plainly and correctly stated on the 

 outside of the package. 



Fourth. If the package containing it or its 

 label shall bear any statement, design, or de- 

 vice regarding the ingredients or the sub- 

 stances contained therein, which statement, 

 design, or device shall be false or misleading 

 in any particular: Provided, That an article 

 of food which does not contain any added 

 poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not 

 be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded in 

 the following cases: 



First. In the case of mixtures or com- 

 pounds which may be now or from time to 

 time hereafter known as articles of food, 

 under their own distinctive names, and not an 

 imitation of or offered for sale under the dis- 

 tinctive name of another article, if the name 

 be accompanied on the same label or brand 

 with a statement of the place where said 

 article has been manufactured or produced. 



Second. In the case of articles labeled, 

 branded, or tagged so as to plainly indicate 

 that they are compounds, imitations, or blends, 

 and the 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 here- 

 in shall be construed to mean a mixture of 

 like substances, not excluding harmless color- 

 ing or flavoring ingredients used for the pur- 

 pose of coloring and flavoring only: and Pro- 

 vided, further. That nothing in this act shall 



