(4) If it be mixed, colored, coated, powdered, or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed.
(5) If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health.
(6) 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, or if it be the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter.
And a food is deemed to be misbranded:
(1) If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article.
(2) If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents shall have been substituted in whole or in part, or if it fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any narcotic or habit-forming drug which it contains.
(3) If it bear an incorrect statement of weight or measure.
(4) If the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, design, or device which is false or misleading in any particular.
For a fuller discussion of the basis of pure food legislation and the essential features of the United States laws see Sherman’s “Food Products,” from which a part of the summary here given is drawn.