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
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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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    and Ireland and the Secretary for Scotland respectively may direct, and every such owner or occupier carrying on such manufacture in a manufactory not duly registei-ed shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. 10. Any officer authorised to take samples under the Sale of Power to Food and Drugs Acts, 1875, ma,y, Nvithout going through the jQ^^^e'^' form of purchase provided by tliat Act, but otherwise acting in samples all respects in accordance with the provisions of the said Act as without pur- to dealing with samples, take for the purposes of analysis samples of any butter, or substances purporting to be butter, which are exposed for sale, and are not marked Margarine, as provided by this Act; and any sucli substance not being so marked shall be presumed to be exposed for sale as butter. 11. Any part of nnj' penalty recovered under this Act may, if Appropria- the court shall so direct, be paid to the person who proceeds for I'-^uies the same, to reimburse liim for the legal costs of obtaining the analysis, aud any other reasonable expenses to which the Court shall consider him entitled. 12. All proceedings under this Act shall, save as expressly Proceedings, varied by this Act, be the same as prescribed by sections twelve to twenty-eight inclusive of tlie Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and all officers employed under that Act are hereby em- powered and required to carry out the provisions of this Act. J3. The expression local authority shall mean any local Deflnitioa authority authorised to appoint a public analyst uuder the Sale of °^|^o*|ty Food and Drugs Act, 1875. New Yokk Adulteration Act, 1881. An Act to Prevent the Adulteration of Food or Drugs, 1881. The People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact asfolloivs- — Section 1.—No person shall, within this State, manufacture, have, offer for sale, or sell any article of food or drugs which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act, and any ])ersan violating this pro- vision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convicticm thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the first offence, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each sub- sequent offence. , „ . , , Section 2.—The term food, as used m this Act, shall mclude every article used for food or drink by man. The term drug, as used in this Act, shall include all medicines for internal and external X1S6* Section 3.—An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act. (a.)—In the case of drugs— i. tt • i 1. If, when sold under or by a name recognised m the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs^ from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down therein. 2. If, when sold under or by a name not recognised in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some othei: Pharma- copoeia or other standard work on Materia Medica, it differs materi- ally from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work.