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Show AN IMPORTANT FOOD LAW. Heavy Penalties for Selling Articles of Food Containing Unhealthy Ingredients. In-gredients. The following law was, passed at the last session of the Missouri legislature, takinsr effect Aug. 20. 1S9U: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation doing business in this state to manufacture, sell or offer to sell any article, compound com-pound or preparation for the purpose of being used or which is intended to be used in the preparation of food, in which article, compound or preparation there is any arsenic, calomel, bismuth, ammonia or alum.' Sec. 2. Any person or corporation violating vio-lating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a. misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars, which shall be paid into and become a part of the road fund of the county in which such J line is collected. The operation of this law will be mainly against alum baking powders. But the manufacture or saje of any article of food or article irtended to be used in food which contains any of the substances classed by the law as un-heaMhful un-heaMhful from arsenic to alum ie absolutely ab-solutely prohibited. |