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Second. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard or quality 
under which it is sold. 
In the case of confectionery : 
If it contains terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral sub- 
stance or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detri- 
mental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound or 
narcotic drug. 
In the case of food : 
First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce 
or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 
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. 
Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a manner 
whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. 
Fifth. If it contain 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 shipment they are preserved by any ex- 
ternal application applied in such manner that the preservative is necessarily 
removed mechanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions 
for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the 
package, the provisions of this act shall be construed as applying only when 
said products are ready for consumption. 
Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid 
animal or vegetable substance, 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. S. That the term “ misbranded ” as used herein shall apply to all drugs, 
or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the 
package 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 food or drug product which 
is falsely branded as to the State. Territory, or country in which it is manu- 
factured or produced. 
That for the purposes of this act an article shall also be deemed to be mis- 
branded : 
In case of drugs : 
First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another 
article. 
Second. If the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been 
removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such 
package, or if the package fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity 
or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta 
eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any 
derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein. 
In the 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 mislead the purchaser, 
or purport 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 have been placed in such package, or if it fail to bear a statement 
on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphine, opium, cocaine, 
