Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.

Date:: 1896

Credit: Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$No drug to bo coloured, &c., BO as to injure its qu&lity. Guilty knowledge essential to the proof of the offence. No person to sell foods or drugs to the prejudice of purchaser. Exceptions. Compound foods or drugs must bo in accord- ance with the demands of purchaser. A legible descriptive notice exonerates Beller. Abstraction of con- stituents of food. 4. No person shall, except for the purpose of compounding as hereinafter described, mix, colour, stain, or powder, or order or per- mit any other person to mix, colour, stain, or powder, any drug; with any ingredient or material so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug, with intent that the same may be sold in that state, and no person shall sell any such drug so mixed, coloured, stained, or powdered, under the same penalty in each case respectively as in the preceding section for a first and subsequent offence. 5. Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted under either of the two last foregoing sections of this Act in respect of the sale of any article of food or of any drug, if he shows to the satisfac- tion of the justice or court before whom he is charged that he did not know of the article of food or drug sold by him being so mixed, coloured, stained, or powdered, as in either of those sections mentionet', and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained thao knowledge. 6. No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such purchaser, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds ; provided that an offence shall not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following cases ; that is to say, (1.) Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof : (2.) Where the drug or food is a proprietary medicine, or is the subject of a patent in force, and is supplied in the state required by the specification of the patent : (3.) Where the food or drug is compounded as in this Act men- tioned : (4.) Where the food or drug is unavoidably mixed \vith some extraneous matter in the process of collection or preparation. 7. No person shall sell any compound article of food or compounded drug which is not composed of ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser, under a penalty not exceeding twenty- pounds. 8. Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice by a label distmctly and legibly written or printed on or ^vith the article or drug, to the effect that the same is mixed. _ 9. No ])erson shall, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without notice, abstract from an article of food any part of It so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or nature and no person shall seU any artJcle so altered without makin^' dis- closure of the alteration, under a penalty in each case not exceedinf» twenty pounds. ° Appointment and Duties of Analysts, and Proceedings to obtain the appointment of Analysis. bodtesbl • ^^^S^ liberties thereof the Commis- bod.es by 3,0^,^3 s^^^^ (.j^y ^^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ thereof and$