Show PURE FOOD Bill PASSED I 1 No Quorum Present but That Point Not Raised 1 I I MEASURE A DRASTIC ONE Inhibits Introduction into States of Misbranded Articles It Is Made to Apply to Any Shipping Delivering1 or Deceiving in Any State or Territory Washington Dec IDrhc House to dny passed the purefood bill by a vote of 72 Lo Ll There was not u quorum I present but the Joint was not raliod by the opponents of the measure The speakers today were Messrs Richardson Richard-son Alabama Hepburn Iowa I alnes Tennessee and Schlrm MarAnnd for the measure anti Miv ChAuller Mississippi against It I The bill prohibits the Introduction Into any State or Territory or the District Dis-trict of Columbia from any other State 4 or Territory or from any foreign country coun-try or the shipment to any foreign I country oC any article food or drug which IK I adulterated or mtahrnndod t The above Inhibition Is made to apply to any one shipping delivering or rc crIvlng within tbc0reglons named only such food adulterated Adulterations In the bill are defined as follows I I IN THIS CASE OF DRUGS I In the case of drugs If i sold under a nan recognized In the United States pharmacopla and the drug differs from the standards oC strength Quality or purity aa determined by the test laid down In such pharmacopja at the time of tho Investigation so thaL Its strength or purity falls below the professed standard under which it Is I sold If ItO It-O ai iirJtation of or offered for sale under the name of another article anil I In thc case of a confectionery If It con lain terra alba barytoy talc chrome I yellow or other mineral substances or lolsonous colors or flavors TN THE CASE OF FOODS I In the case of foods when any substance I sub-stance Is mixed with 1 it so as to lower or Injuriously aifect let quality or strength so that such product when offered of-fered for sao shall tend to deceive thc purchaser If E any substance ou substances sub-stances hove been substitcd so that the I product when sold shall tend to deceive the purchaser 1C any valuable constituent constit-uent of an article l has been wholly or I In part abstracted if It be an Imitation Imita-tion or offered for sale under the distinct dis-tinct name oC another article IC It embed e-mbed colored powdered or stained In a manner whereby damage or Inferiority Infe-riority Is concealed 1C I it contain any added or poisonous Ingredient which may render such article Injurious to health If It is falsely labeled as a foreign product or Imitation of another substance sub-stance of a previously established inme or which has been trademarked or patented If It consist In whole or In part of a filthy decomposed or putrid I pu-trid animal or vegetable substance or I any portion of animal unfit for food or 1 If It ID the product of a diseased animal ani-mal or one that has died otherwise thun by slaughter I I LIABLE TO SEIZURE I The last section of the bill provides 1 that any article of food or drug that Is I adulterated or misbranded withIn I the meaning of the bill and Is transported trans-ported or being transported from one I State to another for sale or 1C I It be sold In the District of Columbia or the Territories or 1C I It be Imported from a foreign country shall be liable l to con I Ilsca lion by a process of llfojl for condemnation con-demnation In the United Staten courts Such guodjj It Is aleo provided shall not I lie sold In any State contrary to the laws thereof |