Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendixBattershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
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Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix
Battershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
Food adulteration and inspection; Food adulteration and inspection -- United States
2. The term “food,” as used in this Act, shall include every article
used for food or drink by man. The term “drug,” as used in this Act,
shall include all medicines for internal and external use.
3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of
this Act:--
_a._--In the case of drugs.
1. If, when sold under or by a name recognised in the United States
Pharmacopœia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or
purity laid down therein.
2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognised in the United
States Pharmacopœia, but which is found in some other pharmacopœia
or other standard work on Materia Medica, it differs materially
from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such
work.
3. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard
under which it is sold.
_b._--In the case of food or drink.
1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with it
so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or
strength.
2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been
substituted wholly or in part for the article.
3. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in
part abstracted.
4. If it be an imitation of, or be sold under the name of, another
article.
5. If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased or decomposed,
or putrid or rotten, animal or vegetable substance, whether
manufactured or not, or, in the case of milk, if it is the produce
of a diseased animal.
6. If it be coloured, or coated, or polished, or powdered, whereby
damage is concealed, or it is made to appear better than it really
is, or of greater value.
7. If it contain any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient
which may render such article injurious to the health of the person
consuming it: Provided, that the State Board of Health may, with
the approval of the Governor, from time to time declare certain
articles or preparations to be exempt from the provisions of this
Act: And provided further, that the provisions of this Act shall
not apply to mixtures or compounds recognised as ordinary articles
of food, provided that the same are not injurious to health and
that the articles are distinctly labelled as a mixture, stating the
components of the mixture.
4. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to prepare
and publish from time to time lists of the articles, mixtures, or
compounds declared to be exempt from the provisions of this Act in
accordance with the preceding section. The State Board of Health shall
also from time to time fix the limits of variability permissible in
any article of food or drug, or compound, the standard of which is not
established by any national pharmacopœia.
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