The grocer's handbook : a text-book for the grocery trade / by W. H. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds, W. H.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The grocer's handbook : a text-book for the grocery trade / by W. H. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “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. . . . 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 with 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 [applies mainly to dispensing chemists]. “8, Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such offence as afore- said 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 distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article or drug, to the effect that the same ts mixed. [This label is further dealt with in the Act of 1899; see post. ] “9, No person shall with the intent that the same may be soid 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 sell any article so altered without making disclosure of the altera- Toms 6. “(Section 27 adds: ‘ And every person who shall wilfully give a label with any article sold by him which shall falsely describe the article sold, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and be liable’, &e.]” The foregoing enactments of 1875 have been extended by the subsequent Acts. The Act of 1879 says:— “9, In any prosecution under the provisions of the principal Act for selling 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