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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 products for ship- 

 ment they are preserved by an external application, applied in 

 such a manner that the preservative is necessarily removed me- 

 chanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and direc- 

 tions for the removal of said preservatives shall be printed on the 

 covering of the package, the provisions of this Act shall be con- 

 strued as applying only when such products are ready for con- 

 sumption ; and formaldehyde, hydrofluoric acid, boric acid, saHcy- 

 lic acid and all compounds and derivatives thereof 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 sluaghter. 



Section 9. Misbranded Defined — The term "misbranded," 

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

 cles which enter into the composition of food or drink, the pack- 

 ages or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device 

 regarding such article or the ingredients or substances contained 

 therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular ; and 

 to any such products which are falsely branded as to manufac- 

 turer, packer or dealer who sells the same or as to the state, terri- 

 tory or country in which it is manufactured or produced. That 

 for the purpose of this Act an article shall be deemed mis- 

 branded — 



In case of food : 



First — If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the 

 distinctive name of another article. 



Second — If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mis- 

 lead the purchaser, or purports 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 



