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have been placed in such package, or if it shall fail to bear a state- 

 ment on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphine, 

 opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, canna- 

 bis indica, chloral hydrate or acetanilid, or any derivative or 

 preparation of any such substances contained therein. 



Third — If in any package form and the contents are stated 

 in terms of weight or measure, they are not correctly and plainly 

 stated on the outside of the package. 



Fourth — If it be a manufactured article of food or food sold 

 in package form, and is not distinctly labeled, marked or branded 

 vi^ith the true name of the article, and with either the name of the 

 manufacturer and place of manufacture or the name and address 

 of the packer or dealer who sells the same. 



Fifth — If the package containing it or its label shall bear 

 any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients of the 

 substance contained therein, which statement, design or device 

 shall be false or misleading in any particular : Provided, that 

 an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous 

 or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or 

 misbranded in following cases : 



First — In case of mixtures or compounds which may be 

 now, or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food 

 under their own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or 

 offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if 

 the name be accompanied on the same label or brand with a state- 

 ment of the place where the article has been manufactured or 

 produced. 



Second — In case of articles labeled, branded or tagged so 

 as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations or 

 blends, and the word ''compound," ''imitation" or "blend," as the 

 case may be, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered 

 for sale : Provided, that the term "blend," as used herein, shall 

 be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not exoluding 

 harmless coloring or flavoring ingredients used for the purpose 

 of coloring and flavoring only; and, as applied to alcoholic bev- 

 erages, only those distilled spirits shall be regarded as "like sub- 



