2006 Kansas Code - 65-631

      65-631.   Adulteration of turpentine or certain oils. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to manufacture, mix for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale in this state, under the name of raw linseed oil or flaxseed oil, any substance which is not wholly the product obtained from well-cleaned flaxseed or linseed, and unless the same fulfills the latest requirements of the United States pharmacopoeia, or any so-called boiled linseed oil, or boiled flaxseed oil, unless the same shall have been prepared by incorporating drier with raw linseed oil, as defined above, at a temperature of not less than 225 degrees Fahrenheit, and unless the same contains not less than 96 percent of linseed oil. And for the purpose of this act it shall also be deemed a violation thereof if boiled linseed oil does not conform to the following requirements:

      (1)   Its specific gravity at 60 degrees Fahrenheit must be not less than 0.935.

      (2)   Its saponification value (Koettstorfer figure) must not be less than 186.

      (3)   Its iodine number (Huebl's method) must not be less than 160.

      (4)   Its acid value must not exceed 10.

      (5)   The volatile matter expelled at 212 degrees Fahrenheit must not exceed one-half of one percent.

      (6)   No mineral oil shall be present, and the amount of unsaponifiable matter as determined by standard methods shall not exceed 2.5 percent.

      (7)   The film left after flowing the oil over glass and allowing it to drain in a vertical position must dry free from tackiness in not to exceed twenty hours, at a temperature of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

      It shall be unlawful to manufacture, mix for sale, sell, offer for sale or expose for sale in this state under the name of turpentine or spirits of turpentine or any compound of the word turpentine or under any name or device illustrating or suggesting turpentine, oil of turpentine or spirits of turpentine, any article which is not wholly distilled from rosin, turpentine gum, or scrape from pine trees, and unmixed and unadulterated with oil, benzine or any other foreign substance of any kind whatsoever.

      History:   L. 1911, ch. 179, § 1; May 22; R.S. 1923, 65-631.