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low, paraffin, mineral fillers or poisonous substances, or poison- 

 ous color or flavor. 



Second — If it contains any ingredient deleterious or detri- 

 mental to health, or any vinous, malt or spiritous liquor or com- 

 pound, or narcotic drug. 

 In case of food : 



First — If any substance has been mixed or packed with it 

 so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality, strength 

 or purity. 



Second — If any substance has been substituted wholly or in 

 part for the article. 



Third — If any valuable constituent of the article has been 

 wholly or in part abstracted : Provided, that in the manufacture 

 of skim or separated cheese the whole or part of the butter fats 

 in the milk may be abstracted. 



Poiirth — If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, polished 

 or stained in any manner whereby damage or inferiority is con- 

 cealed, or it is made to appear better or of greater value than it 

 really is. 



Fifth — If it contains any added poisonous or other added 

 deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious 

 to health : Provided, that when in the preparation of food pro- 

 ducts for shipment they are preserved by an external application, 

 applied in such a manner that the preservative is necessarily 

 removed mechanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, 

 and directions for the removal of said preservatives shall be 

 printed on the covering of the package, the provisions of this 

 Act shall be construed as applying only when such products 

 are ready for consumption; and formaldehyde, hydrofluoric acid, 

 boric acid, salicylic acid and all compounds and derivatives there- 

 of are hereby declared unwholesome and injurious. 



Sixth — If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decom- 

 posed or putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable 

 substance or article, 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. 9. Misbranded Pefined. The term ""misbranded," 

 as used herein, shall apply to all articles of food or drink, or 

 articles which enter into the composition of food or drink, the 

 packages or label of which shall bear any statement^ design or 

 device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substance 



