Pennsylvania Act 1897-68 — ADULTERATED DRUGS, SALE PROHIBITED

Act text

ADULTERATED DRUGS, SALE PROHIBITED
                   Act of May 25, 1897, P.L. 85, No. 68               Cl. 35
                                  AN ACT

     To prevent the adulteration, alteration and substitution of
        drugs and medicinal preparations, and providing penalties for
        violation thereof.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That no person shall, within
     this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale or sell, any
     drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this act. The
     term drug used herein shall include any medicinal substance or
     any preparation authorized or known in the "Pharmacopoeia of the
     United States," or the "National Formulary," or the American
     Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, or the American Homeopathic
     Dispensatory.
        A drug shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning
     of this act:
        1.  If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so
     as to depreciate and weaken its strength, purity or quality.
        2.  If any quality, substance or ingredient be abstracted so
     as to deteriorate or affect injuriously the quality or potency
     of the said drug.
        3.  If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have
     been substituted in whole or part for it.
        4.  If it is an imitation or is sold under the name of
     another drug.
        5.  If the drug shall be so altered that the nature, quality,
     substance, commercial value or medicinal value of it will not
     correspond to the recognized formulae or tests of the latest
     edition of the "National Formulary," or of the "Pharmacopoeia of
     the United States," or the American Homeopathic PHarmacopoeia,
     or the American Homeopathic Dispensatory, regarding quality or
     purity.
        On complaint being entered, the State Pharmaceutical
     Examining Board is hereby empowered to employ an analyst or
     chemist expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into the so
     claimed adulteration and report upon the result of his
     investigation, and if said report justifies such action, the
     board shall duly cause the prosecution of the offender as
     provided in this law. Whoever violates any of the provisions of
     this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
     shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or
     undergo an imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both.
        Section 2.  All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith
     are hereby repealed.