1128 HEALTH. [ART. 43

Second. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard
or quality under which it is sold.

Third. If used in the compounding of a medicine or medicines
intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease in man or
animal, it shall not be of the standard of strength, quality or purity as
determined by the test or tests laid down in the United States Phar-
macopoeia or national formulary; provided, that manufacturing chem-
ists in. compounding medicines may use, when necessary, drugs other
than of standard strength if the finished product obtained fully meets
the requirements of the United States Pharmacopeia or national formu-
lary: In the case of confectionery, if it contains terra alba, barytes,
talc, chrome yellow or other mineral substance, except salt, or poi-
sonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detrimental to
health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous liquors or compound, or nar-
cotic drug. In the case of food:

First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it so as to
reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity.

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, or if the product be below that standard of qual-
ity, strength or purity represented to the purchaser or consumer.

Fourth. If it be mixed, colored or changed in color, powder coated,
stained or bleached, in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is con-
cealed.

Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious
ingredients which may render such article injurious to health; pro-
vided, that when in the preparation of food products for shipment
they are preserved by an external application applied in such manner
that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically or by macera-
tion in water or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said pre-
servative shall be printed on the covering of the package; the provi-
sions of sections 166 to 177 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, contaminated,
decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance or any portion of
a substance unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or any animal
or vegetable substance produced, stored, transferred or kept in a condi-
tion which would render the article diseased, contaminated or unwhole-
some, or if it is the product of a diseased animal or one that has died
otherwise than by slaughter, or that has been fed upon the offal from
a slaughter house, or if it is the milk from an animal fed upon sub-
stances unfit for food for dairy animals, or from an animal kept and
milked in a filthy or contaminated stable, or in surroundings that
would render the milk contaminated.