§ 30-34. Articles deemed adulterated.  


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  • For the purpose of this article, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated:

    (1)

    In the case of confection, if it contains terra alba, barytes, 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 or compound, or narcotic drug.

    (2)

    In the case of food, if:

    a.

    Any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.

    b.

    Any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article.

    c.

    Any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.

    d.

    It be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed.

    e.

    It contains 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 such preservative shall be printed on the covering of the package, the provisions of this section shall be construed as applying only when such products are ready for consumption.

    f.

    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 a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughtering.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 15.23)

State law reference

Food deemed adulterated, RSMo 196.070.