HEALTH 1847

standard of strength, quality or purity as determined by the test or. tests
laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or national formulary; pro-
vided, that no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia or national
formulary, except preparations of opium, shall be deemed to be adulterated
under this provision if the standard of strength, quality or purity be plainly
stated upon the bottle, box or other container thereof, although the standard
may differ, from that determined by the test or tests laid down in the
United States Pharmacopoeia or national formulary.

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 Pharmacopoeia or national
formulary; provided, that manufacturing chemists in compounding medi-
cines may use, when necessary, drugs other than of standard strength if
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 con-
cealed.

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