Chapter 117. To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hund
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CHAP. 117.— An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.March 3, 1913.[[H. R. 22526](/us/bill/62/hr/22526).][[Public, No. 419](/us/pl/62/419).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pure-food regulations.Vol. 34, p. 771, amended.Misbranding.
That section eight of an Act entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package,” and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
" “Third. Packages not marked with weight, etc.*Proviso*.Variations and exemptions permitted.If in package form, the quantity of the contents be not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count: *Provided, however*, That reasonable variations shall be permitted, and tolerances and also exemptions as to small packages shall be established by rules and regulations made in accordance with the provisions of Section three of this Act.
" Sec. 2. In effect at once.That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and *Proviso*.Penalties deferred.after its passage: *Provided, however*, That no penalty of fine, imprisonment, or confiscation shall be enforced for any violation of its provisions as to domestic products prepared or foreign products imported prior to eighteen months after its passage. Approved, March 3, 1913.