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1610 ARTICLE 43.
the finished product obtained fully meets the requirements of the United
States Pharmacopoeia or national formulary: In the case of confectionery,
if it contains terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral sub-
stance, except salt, or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleteri-
ous or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous liquors or
compound, or narcotic 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 quality, 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 concealed.
Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious
ingredients which may render such article injurious to health; provided,
that when in the preparation of food products for shipment they are pre-
served by an external application applied in. such manner that the preserva-
tive is necessarily removed mechanically or by maceration in water or other-
wise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on
the covering of the package; the provisions of sections 189 to 200 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, de-
composed or putrid, animal or vegetable substance or any portion of a sub-
stance unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or any animal or vege-
table substance produced, stored, transferred or kept in a condition which
would render the article diseased, contaminated or unwholesome, 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 substances 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.
In the case of water:
First. If manufactured for sale, produced for sale, exposed for sale or
advertised for sale, as a spring, well or mineral water, or if served in a
public place as a spring, well or mineral water, it be found upon analysis
to differ in composition or constituents from the composition or constituents
of the water taken from the spring, well or other original source, or alleged
original source, from which such water is obtained or alleged to be obtained,
unless the changes therein or additions thereto be plainly indicated upon
the label; provided, that in the case of waters manufactured to resemble
natural mineral waters, such waters must be labeled in a conspicuous
manner " artificial"; and provided further, that when such waters are
sold or served as mineral waters, they must contain one or more mineral
constituents in sufficient quantities to have a therapeutic effect from these
constituents when a reasonable quantity of the water is consumed.
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