Section 7
SEC. 7. For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: In case of drugs : First, If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the lest laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, official at the time of investigation: Provided, That no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopeia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated upon the bottle, box, or other container thereof although the standard may differ from that determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary. Second, If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard or quality under which if is sold. In case of confectionery: If it contain terra alba, barytcs, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substance or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor compound or narcotic drug. In the case of food : First, If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. 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. Fourth, If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed. Fifth, If it contain 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 any external application applied in such manner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the package, the provisions of this Act shall be construed as applying only when said products are ready for consumption. Sixth, If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of discard animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter.