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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Suss. II. Ch. 25. 1898. 247 whereby damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; seventh, if it contains -any added poisonou ingredient or any ingredient which may render it injurious to the health of a person consuming it; eighth, in the case of milk, if it contains less than three and one-half per centum of fat, less than nine per centum of solids not fat, and contains more than eighty-seven and one-half per centum of water ; in the case of cream, if it contains less than twenty per centum of butter fat; ninth, in the case of butter or cheese, if it is not made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt; the butter, if it contains more than twelve per centum of water, more than five per centum of salt, and less than eighty-three per centum of fat; tenth, in the case of coffee, if it is not composed entirely of the seed of the Caifea arabica; eleventh, in the case of lard, if it is not made exclusively from the rendered fat of the healthy hog; twelfth, in the case of tea, if it is not composed entirely of the genuine leaf of the tea plant not exhausted; thirteenth, in the case of all kinds of vinegar, if it contains an acidity equivalent to the presence of less than four per centum of absolute acetic acid; and cider vinegar, if it is not made from the pure apple juice and contains less than one and five-tenths per centum of total solids; fourteenth, in the case of cider, if it is not made from the legitimate product of pure apple juice; in the case of wines and fruit juices, if not made from the pure fruit as represented; and in the case of cider, wines, fruit juices, and malt liquors, if not free from salicylic acid or other preservatives; and in the case of malt liquors, if not free from piric acid, coculus indicus, colchicine, colocynth, aloes, and wormwood; fifteenth, in the case of glucose, if it contains more than five one-hundredths per centum of ash; sixteenth, in the case of Hour, if it is not composed entirely of one single ground cereal; seventeenth, in the case of bread,if there is any addition of alum, sulphate of copper, borax, or sulphate of zinc, or other poisonous or harmful ingredient, and if it contains more than thirty-one per centum of moisture, more than two per centum of ash, and less than six and twenty-five one-hundredths per centum of albuminoids; eighteenth, in the case of olive oil, if it is not made exclusively from the olive berry (0lea ’ enropaza), and its spccinc gravity at iitteen and six-tenths degrees centigrade (sixty degrees Fahrenheit) " actual density ” to be not more than nine hundred and seventeen one-thousandths nor les than nine hundred and fourteen one-thousandths: Provided, That an oftense shall {QY}’,§j§’;, ,,,,6,,,,, not be deemed to be committed under this section in the following umn is ¤Pa§·»·1;l¤¤i- cases, that is to say, first, where the order calls for an article of food ,'}‘,},’§§,‘];EZ,,§°,_ JX"` °°° or drug inferior to such standard, or where such diference is made known by being plainly written or printed on the package; second, where the article of food or drug is 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 such article is delivered to the purchaser it is made known to him that such article of food or drug is so mixed. _ Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the health officer of the District m¥_}g°,}}hcg{f"j`I°;{,,,f"§g of Columbia, under the direction of the Commissioners of said Dis- prepare mguimms, trict, to adopt such measures as may be necessary to facilitate the °‘°· enforcement hereof, and prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper method of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food in said District. Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the health officer to investigate I0 i¤*;=#:Qg=¤*·> vie a complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of this Act on the l“"°°° ° ` information of any person who lays before him satisfactory evidence by which to substantiate such complaint. _ Sec. 6. That every person offering for sale Ol' delivering to any pur- S“““’l°“ f°° “'"°"“" chaser any drug or article of food included in the provisions of this Act shall furnish to any analyst or other officer or agent of the health department, who shall apply to him for the purpose and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample sntlicient for the purpose of analysis of any such drug or article of food which is in his possession.