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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 

 that in the case of baking powders each can or package shall be 

 plainly labeled so as to show the acid salt or salts contained 

 therein. 



Slc. 4. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station shall analyze, or cause to be analyzed, samples 

 of articles of food on sale in Maine, suspected of being adul- 

 terated, and at such times and to such extent as said director 

 may determine. And said director, in person or by deputy, 

 shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any place 

 wherein articles of food are offered for sale, and upon tendering 

 the market price of any such article may take from any person, 

 persons or corporations samples for analysis. 



Se;c. 5. The results of all analyses of articles of food made 

 by said director shall be published by him in the bulletins or 

 reports of the Experiment Station, together with the names of 

 the persons from whom the samples were obtained, and the 

 names of the manufacturers thereof. The said director may 

 also adopt or fix standards of purity, quality or strength when 

 such standards are not specified or fixed by law and shall publish 

 them, together with such other information concerning articles 

 of food -as may be of public benefit. 



Sec. 6. Whoever adulterates or misbrands any article of 

 food as defined in this act, or whoever sells, offers or exposes for 



