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pounds, imitations or blends to be lawfully ^old should be plain- 

 ly labeled so as to indicate the fact. 



Confectionery is adulterated if it contains terra alba, barytes, 

 talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substances or poisonous 

 color or flavor or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental 

 to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor, or compound, 

 or narcotic drug. 



A food is adulterated if : any substance has been mixed or 

 packed with it so as to reduce, lower, or injuriously afifect its 

 quality or strength; any substance has been substituted wholly 

 or in part for the article ; any valuable constituent of the article 

 has been wholly or in part abstracted ; it be mixed, colored, pow- 

 dered, coated or stained in a manner whereby damage or in- 

 feriority is concealed ; it contain any added poisonous or other 

 added deleterious ingredient which may render such article in- 

 jurious to health; it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, 

 decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance or any por- 

 tion of an animal unfit for food whether manufactured or not ; 

 it is the product of a diseased animal or one that died other- 

 wise than by slaughter; in the manufacture, sale, distribution 

 or transportation or in the offering or exposing for sale, dis- 

 tribution or transportation it is not at all times securely protected 

 from flies, dust or other contamination or other unclean, uri- 

 healthful or unsanitary conditions; it does not conform to the 

 standards of strength, quality and purity established by statute 

 or fixed by the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station : Provided, that no food shall be deemed to be adulter- 

 ated if its standard of strength, purity or quality is plainly 

 stated so as to be understood by the non-professional person, 

 although the standard may dift'er from that fixed by statute or 

 by said director ; if its strength or purity differs from the pro- 

 fessed standard or quality under which it is sold. 



A food is misbranded if : the package or label bears any 

 statement, design or device which is misleading, in any par- 

 ticular ; it be an imitation of or oft'ered for sale under the name 

 of another article; the contents of the package as originally 

 put up have been removed in whole or in part and other con- 

 tents shall have been placed in such package; it fail to bear a 

 statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of each 

 and an}^ added coloring matter, preservative, chemical or drug 



