78 MAINE AGRICULTURAI. EXPERIMENT STATION. I905. 



Sec. 2. The term food, as used in this act, shall include every 

 article used for food or drink by man, horses or cattle. 



Sec. 3. For the purpose of this act an article of food shall 

 be considered as adulterated or misbranded : 



First. If any substance or substances be mixed or packed 

 with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality 

 or strength. 



Second. If any inferior substance or substances be substi- 

 tuted wholly or in part for this article. 



Third. If any necessary or valuable constituent of the article 

 be wholly or in part abstracted. 



Fourth. If it be in imitation of, or sold under the name of 

 another article. 



Fifth. If it be colored, coated, polished or powdered whereby 

 damage is concealed, or if it be made to appear better or of 

 greater value than it is. 



Sixth. If it contains poisonous ingredients, or if it contains 

 any antiseptic or preserv'ative not evident or not known to the 

 purchaser. 



Seventh. If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, filthy, 

 decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance. 



Eighth. If the package or label shall have any statement 

 purporting to name any ingredient or substance as not being 

 contained in the article, which statement shall be untrue in any 

 particular. 



Ninth. If the package or label shall bear any statement 

 purporting to name the substance or substances of which the 

 article is made, which statement shall not fully give the names 

 of all substances contained therein. 



Tenth. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead 

 the purchaser in any particular. 



Provided, that any article of food which is adulterated within 

 the meaning of this act, but which does not contain any 

 poisonous or deleterious ingredient, may be manufactured or 

 sold if the same shall be plainly labeled, branded or tagged so as 

 to show the exact character thereof. Provided further, that 

 nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring proprietors, 

 manufacturers or sellers of proprietary foods which contain no 

 unwholesome substances to disclose their trade formulas, except 



