148 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 medi-
cines 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 re-
quirements 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 substance,
except salt, or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient
deleterious 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 pur-
chaser 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 dele-
terious ingredients which may render such article injurious to
health; provided, that when in the preparation of food prod-
ucts for shipment they are preserved by an external applica-
tion applied in such manner that the preservative is neces-
sarily removed mechanically or by maceration in water or
otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative
shall be printed on the covering of the package; the provisions
of this Act 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, contami-
nated, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance or