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tation or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25.00 and not to exceed $300.00.

PROHIBITION LAW

TITLE 22, CHAPTER 125,

Idaho Compiled Statutes, 1919.

2604. The manufacture, disposal and transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes are prohibited in the state of Idaho.

2605. The words "intoxicating liquors" as used in this chapter shall be deemed and construed to include spirituous, vinous, malt and fermented liquors, and all mixtures and preparations thereof, including bitters and other drinks that may be used as a beverage and produce intoxication.

ALCOHOL LAW

CHAPTER 50, Laws of 1921,

(Amended by Chapter 10, Laws of 1923.)

SEC. 1. All wholesale dealers in alcohol within the state, and all manufacturers, including pharmacists, using alcohol in their manufactured products, within the state, shall hereafter obtain a license from the secretary of state, with the approval of the governor, for which license a fee of two dollars per annum shall be charged.

Provided, however, Pharmacists holding regular Idaho pharmacist licenses in good standing shall not be required to obtain the license from the secretary of state as provided in this section, but such licensed pharmacists shall be deemed duly licensed under the provisions of this chapter for all purposes herein; and such licensed pharmacists shall not be required to pay any license fee under the provisions of this chapter. Provided, further, That licensed pharmacists of the state of Idaho shall not be required to comply with any of the provisions of Sections 2607, 2608, 2609, 2610, 2611 or 2612 of the Idaho Compiled Statutes.

SEC. 2. Licensed wholesale dealers within the state may purchase, transport, keep for sale and sell alcohol, and unlicensed wholesale dealers without the state may sell and transport alcohol into and within the state by regular railroad or express carrier, and all licensed manufacturers, including pharmacists, and all hospitals, educational institutions, chem

ical laboratories, and assayers, and all physicians who have been regularly licensed to practise medicine within the state, desiring to use pure alcohol for manufacturing, laboratory or scientific purposes, may purchase such alcohol of such wholesale dealer and transport the same into or within the state by regular railroad or express carrier, and may use the same for manufacturing, laboratory or scientific purposes only. Approved February 8, 1923.

SEC. 3. No wholesaler shall carry in stock alcohol in excess of ten per cent of the value of his or its general merchandise stock, provided that the wholesalers who are manufacturers of products in which alcohol is a component part, may withdraw from their stock alcohol in such quantities from time to time as may be necessary to meet their manufacturing requirements, but a record, open to public inspection, shall be kept, showing the date and amount of each such withdrawal, and no article used as a beverage shall be manufactured therefrom.

Approved March 4, 1921.

ILLINOIS

(Next regular Legislative Session in 1925.)

No variation from U. S. P. or N. F. standard permitted.

Misbranding provision relate to food.

Food to be branded with weight, measure or numerical count.

FOOD LAW

Approved May 14, 1907.
CHAPTER 562,

'Smith's Illinois Revised Statutes, 1921.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture for sale within the State of Illinois any article of food or drink which is adulterated and misbranded within the meaning of this act. It shall be unlawful for any person to use filthy, decomposed, putrid, rotten, deleterious or poisonous substances as a constitutent part of manufactured food, or in the manufacture of any food. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished according to the provisions of this act: Provided, That no article of food shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the provisions of this act when intended for export to any foreign country or purchaser, and prepared or packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign country to which said article is intended to be shipped; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for sale for domestic use or consumption, then this proviso shall not exempt said article from the operations of any of the other provisions of this act. (As amended by act filed June 12, 1915.)

SEC. 6. The having in possession or control of any food which violates any of the provisions of this act with intent to sell the same or to use the same in violation of this act is hereby prohibited; and whoever shall have in his possession or control with intent to sell or offer for sale any food which violates any of the provisions of this act or with intent to use any such food in violation of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as herein provided. The possession or control of any food which violates any of the provisions of this act shall (be) held to be prima facie evidence that such possession or control is or was with intent to sell or use such food in violation of this act.

Whoever shall have possession or control with intent to sell of any food which violates any of the provisions of this act shall be held to have known the true character, quality and name of such food. (As amended by act filed June 12, 1915.)

SEC. 7. The term "food", as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed or compound, and any substance used as a constituent in the manufacture thereof.

SEC. 8. That for the purpose of this act, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated:

In case of confectionery:

First. If it contains terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow, parrafin, mineral fillers or poisonous substances, or poisonous color or flavor.

Second. If it contains any ingredient deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drug.

In 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 left out; Provided, That in the manufacture of skim or separated cheese the whole or part of the butter fats in the milk may be abstracted.

Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, polished, or stained in any manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is.

Fifth. If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health: Provided, That when in the preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by an external application, applied in such a manner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservatives shall be printed on the covering of the package, the provisions of this act shall be construed as applying only when such products are ready for consumption; and formalde

hyde, hydrofluoric acid, boric acid, salicylic acid and all compounds and derivatives thereof are hereby declared unwholesome and injurious.

Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. (As amended by act filed June 12, 1915.)

SEC. 9. The term "misbranded", as used herein, shall apply to all articles of food or drink, or articles which enter into the composition of food or drink, the packages or labels of which bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substance contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular; and to any such products which are falsely branded as to manufacturer, packer or dealer who sells the same or as to the state, territory or country in which it is manufactured or produced. That for the purpose of this act an article shall also be deemed to be misbranded:

In case of food:

First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, or if it does not conform to the standards set forth in this act.

Second. If it be so labeled or branded as to make the identity of the manufacturer, packer or dealer who sells or offers the same for sale uncertain or doubtful; or which is so labeled or branded as to indicate on the receptacle, vessel or container the name of any firm or corporation other than the firm or corporation actually manufacturing, packing or dealing in the article or product so sold or offered for sale; or if it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purports to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of a package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and refilled by contents of a different quality or of a different manufacturer, packer or dealer, or if it shall fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilid or any derivative or preparation of any such substance contained therein.

Third. If in package form, the quantity of the contents be not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count: Provided, however, That reasonable variation shall be per

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