97-27-1 - Adulteration of food, drugs or candy. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy.
 

If any person shall manufacture, sell or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any adulterated food, or drug, as defined by law; or if any person shall manufacture, sell, or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any candy, confection, or sweetmeat, in making which any preparation of lime or other deleterious substance is used, he shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1880, § 2744; 1892, § 952; 1906, § 1028; Hemingway's 1917, § 753; 1930, § 771; 1942, § 1997.