ALABAMA.

There are no special provisions made for enforcing the law prohibiting the adulteration of drugs.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

1. Conduct of drug store; penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any pharmacy, drug store, apothecary shop or store located in any village, town or city in the State of Alabama of more than five hundred inhabitants or within two miles of any incorporated city or town of more than five hundred inhabitants, for the purpose of retailing, compounding or dispensing medicines or poisons for medical use, except as hereinafter provided. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.

2. Compounding and dispensing drugs; penalty. It shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy in any village, town or city in the State of Alabama of more than five hundred inhabitants or within two miles of any incorporated city or town of more than five hundred inhabitants, to allow any person except a registered pharmacist to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, except as an aid to, and under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense. Act of February 25, 1889, as amended February 18, 1897.

Acts 1896-7, p. 1450.

SALE OF POISONS.

1. Labels. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail, arsenic or any of its preparations, corrosive a sublimate, white or red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, or any poisonous vegetable, alkaloids or their salts, or the essential oil of almonds, opium or its preparation, except paragoric, and other preparation of opium, containing less than two grains to the ounce, aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savine, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, veratrum, digitalis and their pharmaceutical preparations, cotton oil,a chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids,a carbolic and oxalic acids without labeling the box, vessel or paper, in which the said poisons are contained with the name of the article, the word poison, and the name and place of business of the seller, and enter in a book kept for that purpose, the name of the purchaser, date of sale,

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the name of the poison and the quantity purchased. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any of the poisons, herein enumerated, unless upon due inquiry, he shall find that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. But the provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescription of licensed practitioners of medicine nor to manufacturers making and selling poisons at wholesale. (Sec. 3254, Code 1896, as amended; original act approved Feb. 28, 1887.)

2. Penalty. Any person who may be found guilty of the violation of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars.

General Acts, 1903, p. 372.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

7. Druggists responsible for quality of drugs sold; penalty. Every registered pharmacist, apothecary, and owner of any store, shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, or medicines he may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in original packages of the manufacturer, and also those known as proprietary and patent medicines, and should he knowingly intermingle and fraudulently adulterate or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals or medical preparations, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in addition thereto his name shall be stricken from the register.

Acts 1886-87, p. 109.

ADULTERATION OF LIQUORS WITH DRUGS.

5327. Penalty. Any manufacturer, brewer, distiller, grocer, tavern-keeper, retailer of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or wholesale dealer of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any other person, who makes, distills, sells, or offers to sell, or exposes for sale, or permits his servant, apprentice, clerk, or agent, or other person for him, to sell, offer or expose for sale, any such liquors which have been adulterated by the mixture or addition of any poisonous, unwholesome substances, or which are composed or compounded, in whole or in part, of any drug or oil, must, ́on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred and fifty, and not more than one thousand dollars. (Laws 1884-5, p. 139.)

Code, 1896, vol. 2, p. 434.

ALASKA.

There is no officer specifically charged with the enforcement of the law regarding the aduteration of drugs.

SALE OF POISONS.

163. Penalty for sale without a label. If any person shall sell or deliver any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or other poison, without having the word " poison" and the true name thereof in English written or printed upon a label attached to the vial, box, or parcel containing the same, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. (Approved October 19, 1864, Laws of Oregon.)

Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 34.

145. Sale of opium restricted. It shall be unlawful to sell or give away opium, or any preparation of which opium is the principal medicinal agent, to any -person except druggists and practicing physicians, except on the prescription of a practicing physician, written in the English or Latin language; and the druggist filling the prescription shall keep the same on file for one year subject to be inspected by any public officer of the district.

149. Penalty. Any person violating any of the four sections last preceding shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than two years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or by fine not less than fifty dollars nor more' than five hundred dollars. Approved November 25, 1885, Laws of Oregon.

Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 31.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

158. Penalty. If any person shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine in such manner as to render the same injurious to health, or shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any adulterated drug or medicine, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner provided in section one hundred and fifty-six. [By imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars], and such adulterated drugs or medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed. (Approved October 19, 1864, Laws of Oregon.)

Carter's Annotated Codes, 1900, p. 33.

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ARIZONA.

The State Board of Pharmacy is charged with the enforcement of the laws regarding the adulteration of drugs and medicines. Action, however, can only be taken by the board when written complaint is entered charging specific violation. All fines collected are placed at the disposal of the Board of Pharmacy.

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

1. Conduct of drug store and compounding of physician's prescriptions. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct any pharmacy or store for dispensing or compounding medicine, unless such person be a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this Act; and it shall be unlawful for any person tɔ compound or dispense any physician's prescriptions, unless such person be a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist, within the meaning of this Act, except as hereinafter provided.

Laws 1903, p. 122.

· 10. Fraudulent registration; sale of drugs by unregistered pharmacists; penalty; erceptions. Any person that shall attempt to procure registration for himself, or for any other person under this Act, by making, or causing to be made, any false representations, or who shall fraudulently represent himself to be registered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. Any registered pharmacist who shall permit the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions of medical practitioners in his store by persons not registered, except by junior assistants under the direct supervision of registered persons, or any person not registered, who shall retail medicines or poisons, except in a pharmacy under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, or registered assistant pharmacist, and any registered person who shall fail to comply with the regulations of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined not exceediing fifty dollars. Nothing in this Act shall apply to or interfere with the business of any practitioner of medicine who does not keep a pharmacy or open shop for the retailing of medicines or poisons mentioned in this Act.

Nor shall general dealers come under the provisions of this Act, in so far as it relates to the keeping for sale of proprietary medicines in original packages of drugs and medicines, but in no case shall they compound or prepare any pharmaceutical preparations or prescriptions.

Laws 1903, p. 126.

SALE OF POISONS.

9. Labeling and records; penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any poisons enumerated in schedules "A" and "B" appended to this Act, without labeling the bottle, box or paper in which said poison is contained

with the name of the article, the word "POISON" and the name and place of business of the seller.

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Nor shall it be lawful to sell or deliver any poison named in schedules “A” and "B" unless, on inquiry, it is found that the person is aware of its poisonous character, and that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. Nor shall it be lawful to sell or deliver any poison included in schedule "A" without making, [or] causing to be made an entry in a book for that purpose only, stating the date of sale, and the name and address of purchaser, the name and quantity of poison sold, the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; said book always to be open for inspection by the proper authorities and to be preserved at least five years.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons, when prescribed by practitioners of medicine, nor to the sale of poisons if a single bottle or package does not contain more than an ordinary dose. Dealers shall affix to every bottle, box or parcel, or other inclosures of an original package containing any of the articles named in schedules "A" and "B" of this Act, a suitable label or brand with the word poison, but they are hereby exempted from the registration of such article when sold at wholesale, or to a registered pharmacist or physician. Any person failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 11. Poison schedules. * * *

SCHEDULE "A."

Arsenic, corrosive sublimite," cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, struchnia, cocaine, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, opium and all its preparations, excepting those which contain less than two grains to the ounce.

SCHEDULE "B."

Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, savin, cantharides, phosphorus, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral, sulphate of zinc, sugar of lead, mineral acids, carbolic acids, and oxalic acid, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, essential oil of almonds.

Laws 1903, p. 125–127.

ADULTERATION OF DRUGS.

351. Druggists responsible for mistakes in filling orders. Every apothecary, druggist or person carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, or person employed as clerk or salesman by such person, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines, or making up any prescription, or filling any order for drugs or medicines, wilfully, negligently, or ignorantly, omits to label the same, or puts an untrue label, stamp, or other designation of contents upon any box, bottle, or other package containing any drugs or medicines, or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if death ensues, is guilty of a felony.

Revised Statutes, 1901, p. 1246.

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