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Mississippi Code 1972 (2024)
Title 75 - REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE AND INVESTMENTS (§§ 75-1-101 — 75-99-7)
Chapter 29 - SALE AND INSPECTION OF FOOD AND DRUGS (§§ 75-29-1 — 75-29-951)
Article 1 - ADULTERATED AND MISBRANDED FOOD (§§ 75-29-1 — 75-29-31)
Section 75-29-9 - Articles deemed misbranded

Universal Citation:
MS Code § 75-29-9 (2024)
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An article shall be deemed to be misbranded:

First. - If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another article.

Second. - 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 of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package.

Third. - If the package containing it or its label shall bear any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients of the substances contained therein, which statement, design or device shall be false in any particular.

Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 4668; 1930, § 4961; 1942, § 7111; Laws, 1910, ch. 132; Laws, 1983, ch. 418; Laws, 1989, ch. 312, § 6, eff. 7/1/1989.

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