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
[Sidenote: Act of 1882 does not affect chapter 57 of the Public
Statutes. 1884, 289, § 4.]
10. Nothing contained in chapter two hundred and sixty-three of the
Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two shall be in any way
construed as repealing or amending anything contained in chapter
fifty-seven of the Public Statutes.
[Sidenote: Samples to be sealed for benefit of defendant. 1884, 289, §
8.]
11. Before commencing the analysis of any sample the person making
the same shall reserve a portion which shall be sealed; and in case
of a complaint against any person the reserved portion of the sample
alleged to be adulterated shall upon application be delivered to the
defendant or his attorney.
[Sidenote: Selling corrupt or unwholesome provisions without notice.
Public Statutes, chap. 208, § 1. 12 Cush. 499.]
12. Whoever knowingly sells any kind of diseased, corrupted, or
unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without making
the same fully known to the buyer, shall be punished by imprisonment
in the jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding two
hundred dollars.
[Sidenote: Adulterating food. Public Statutes, chap. 208, § 3.]
13. Whoever fraudulently adulterates, for the purpose of sale,
bread or any other substance intended for food, with any substance
injurious to health, or knowingly barters, gives away, sells, or has
in possession with intent to sell, any substance intended for food,
which has been adulterated with any substance injurious to health,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year,
or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars; and the articles so
adulterated shall be forfeited, and destroyed under the direction of
the court.
[Sidenote: Adulterating liquor used for drink, with Indian cockle,
etc. Public Statutes, chap. 208, § 4.]
14. Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor used or
intended for drink, with Indian cockle, vitriol, grains of paradise,
opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel-water, logwood, Brazil wood,
cochineal, sugar of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous
or injurious to health, and whoever knowingly sells any such liquor
so adulterated, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison
not exceeding three years; and the articles so adulterated shall be
forfeited.
[Sidenote: Adulteration of drugs or medicines. Public Statutes, chap.
208, § 5.]
15. Whoever fraudulently adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any
drug or medicine, or sells any fraudulently adulterated drug or
medicine, knowing the same to be adulterated, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not
exceeding four hundred dollars; and such adulterated drugs and
medicines shall be forfeited, and destroyed under the direction of the
court.
[Sidenote: Persons selling certain poisons to keep record, etc.]
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